Word: essays
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fifteenth book of the Iliad. One's screams, however, are not long prolonged. Of ten august and ancient inspirations, and no happier in itself, is Mr. Storer's "A Chemical Chimaera." It is a weakling hatched beneath the wing of Mr. H. G. Wells. Mr. Roelker's essay on "College Politics" is too rambling in style and thought to be as effective as it might. But his plea for more intelligent interest in politics is one that we might heed with advantage. The anonymous essay "Concerning Those Who Appreciate" is loose and bland and vague. One wants to punch...
...Dodo. The two prose articles, "The National Anthem" and "College Politics," deserve a word in passing. Of the two, the first was decidedly more worthy of publication; continued calling of attention to the inefficiency of American national music may result in ultimate good, and the suggestions made in the essay--if it may be called such--are pertinent. The second article is genial, but it is a cross between a Lampoon grind and a CRIMSON editorial, with all the faults of both and few of the virtues of either. Both articles should have been shortened, and included among the editorials...
...Menorah Society Prize of $100, for an essay on a subject connected with the work and achievements of the Jewish people has been awarded to J. M. Rosenthal '09, for an essay entitled, "The Jews of Newport...
...Bowdoin prizes in Greek and Latin have been awarded for 1907-08 as follows: graduate prize of $100, to R. C. Horn 2G., for an original essay in Greek; undergraduate prizes of $50 each, to F. Livesey '08, for a translation into Latin of a passage in Walter Pater's "Marius the Epicurean;" and to E. W. Friend '10, for a translation into Attic Greek of a passage in Walter Pater's "Plato and Platonism...
...Sumner prize of $100 has been awarded to C. Benton 1G., for an essay on "The Contributions of the South American Republics to the International Peace Movement...