Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some years ago a man, not altogether averse to prominence at the Lake Mohonk peace conferences, offered $100 to the student in any American college who would write the best essay on the peace cause. With a great flourish of trumpets, the donor himself making a magnificent speech, the $100 was finally awarded. Statistics showed that if the prize had been divided equally among the contestants each would have received 82 cents for his labors. Of course, the contest may have been an aid to forceful writing, but the chances are that the same results could have been accomplished through...
Especially in knowledge of the English language have our college graduates of the highly specialized years been lacking. The number of men with diplomas, even from our best universities, who cannot write a clear and sensible letter, who know little of spelling, and who are unable to speak a well arranged sentence, has seriously concerned constructive teachers...
This spring it is planned to run the editorial competition on a slightly different basis from heretofore, by stressing the quality rather than the quantity of material handed in and published. Candidates will be expected to write two editorials a week at first, with a possible increase in the number later on in the spring, when the competition narrows down. There is an exceptional opportunity to make the board, as there are at present no members of the editorial department from the class of 1921. Four men are usually elected to this department from a class. Juniors only are eligible...
...required at least a surface knowledge of the Freudian explorations to write this play, and playgoers with a bit of that knowledge will have the time of their lives as it unfolds. It is true that the Freudian playgoer lies in wait for the slightest lurking excuse to descend into the sub-conscious--discovering clues and symptoms of which playwright, producer and players are blissfully unaware. He sees an inhibition at every turn, and with the slightest encouragement would talk about the Psycho-Anabasis of Xenophon. But "Mamma's Affair' really invites his special attention...
...send in your orders promptly so that we may bind up the books and deliver them, and thus conclude the Committee's affairs. You can't afford to miss the Album and you can't go back on the Committee. If you don't receive a postal write to the Committee but act quickly, because there are only 198 Albums to go 'round. The price of the Album is $6.50. 1918 PHOTOGRAPHIC COMMITTEE...