Word: writings
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Candidates may, however, with the consent of the Committee, write on other classical subjects...
...graceful translation "From the French of Rousard," Mr. Seegar's very melodious "San Cristoval," Mr. Gilkey's "Song," containing a poetic idea, Mr. Reed's charming "Melisande," and Mr. Thayer's ambitious "Midnight"--these together, one is happy to see, attest a widespread power among Harvard students to write finished and fine-spirited verse. More sustained effort is manifest in Mr. Hunt's adaptation of the delightful Middle-English lay "Sir Orfeo." This rendering--of which half is postponed to the December number-- is of striking excellence. Mr. Hunt employs with good effect an eight-line stanza, instead...
...skirmish with the natives was severely wounded. On returning from the Philippines in 1907, he was appointed superintendent of the United States Military Academy with the rank of colonel. As an author Colonel Scott has been enabled from his intimate knowledge of the American Indians and their ways to write several monographs and reports which have proved of great value to the government...
...improper; as well take offence at the mildly inquiring eye of the policeman on your beat. The so-called honor system which Mr. Macgowan advocates has, so far as I can see no real and certain advantages. The fact that under it the student is required to write at the end of his blue-book the statement that he has neither given nor received assistance, would make it, to those hypersensitive should who feel humiliated by proctors, equally offensive. As Mr. Macgowan himself admits, it has not wholly eliminated cheating in those institutions which have tried it. Whatever fancied advantages...
...examination for the Ricardo Prize Scholarship will be held in University 23 this morning at 9 o'clock. Each contestant will be called upon to write in the examination room, and essay on a topic chosen by himself, from a list not previously announced, in economics and political science. The award will be made before June...