Word: essayist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Owen Wister '82, of Philadelphia, Pa., author and essayist; Thomas William Lamont '92, of New York City, of the J. P. Morgan Co.; Judge, Julian William Mack LL. B. '87, of Chicago, III; Edward Hickling Bradford '69, of Boston, former Dean of the Medical School; Ellery Sedgwick '94, of Boston, editor of the Atlantic Monthly; John Downer Pennock '83, of Syracuse, N. Y.; president of the Solway Salt Works; Henry Pennypacker '88, of Cambridge, principal of the Boston Latin School; Benjamin Joy '05, of Boston, vice-president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation; Howard Coonley '99, of Boston; and Grenville Clark...
Owen Wister '82, of Philadelphia, Pa., author and essayist; Thomas William Lamont '92, of New York City, of the firm of J. P. Morgan Co.; Judge Julian William Mack LL.B. '87, of Chicago, Ill.; Edward Hickling Bradford '69, of Boston, former dean of the Medical School; Ellery Sedgwick '94, of Boston, editor of the Atlantic Monthly; John Downer Pennock '83, of Cambridge, principal of the Boston Latin School; Benjamin Joy '05, of Boston, vice-president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation; Howard Coonley '99, of Boston; and Grenville Clark '03, of New York City...
That entertaining essayist SAMUEL CROTHERS writes in the Atlantic Monthly on "Everybody's Natural Desire to Be Some One Else," but it has been our observation that everybody, at some time or other, is the victim of an unnatural and deplorable desire to be himself...
...Thayer's "Essay on Man" is a courageous attempt to do a difficult and dangerous thing. For the scope of the paper is almost as wide as the title suggests, and it is hard to write something new about "Man" in two columns and a half. When an essayist begins by saying, "There are men who say the commonplace in a commonplace manner," he sets a great temptation before the reviewer--a temptation which the present reviewer with difficulty resists. When Mr. Thayer next classifies men according to their ways of expressing themselves, he ought to find a place...
...Harvard's Duty" seems to the essayist to be the development of gentlemen politicians"; but from rather an illogical premise that "politics should be a career and not a business", the writer quickly comes to earth and emphasizes the paucity of political discussion in the University. We have, as he says, the Taft Club and the La Follette Club, but neither organization takes the trouble to discuss in open debate with the other the merits of its particular candidate; much less to meet the members of the Democratic Clubs or the Socialist Club. In the light of such conditions...