Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...just appeared. At last, praise be, a single publication has ventured to invite to its columns the whole university, instructors as well as students, Radcliffe as well as Harvard, and to discuss other than purely academic interests. Therefore, it is seven times welcome, and if in so new an essay it makes mistakes--as it surely will--seventy times seven to be forgiven. Its editors can well afford to laugh (and incidentally watch their pockets bulge) at pre-adolescent lucubrations in red and yellow. (How pat for anonymity that choice of colors...
...Winthrop Sargent Prize has been established here to be awarded annually for the best essay relating to Shakespeare or Shakespeare's works. The award was established with a fund of $2,500 received from the estate of the late Mrs. Winthrop Sargent...
...subjects for the Menorah Society Prize Essay must be selected and approved before April 1, and all completed essays must be handed in on that date. The prize of one hundred dollars is annually awarded by judges selected by the Menorah Society for the best essay upon some relative subject...
...much as Hergesheimer does in "Java Head", I failed to find anything in the publication to stir either the intellect or the emotions. There was considerable attempt at originality both in the stories and the poems, which left only the desire to refer the authors to Professor Babbitt's essay on that phase of literary endeavor. One of the stories was interesting only because it was about Russia; the other a clumsy attempt at whimsicality mingled with a certain amount of unredeemed lubricity. The poems suffer in comparison with the work of Hillyer and Damon. The one essay contained much...
...prose, likewise, is a school of loyalty. There was much of Europe in his learning, as his memorable Dante essay shows, and the traditions of great English literature were the daily companions of his mind. He was bookish, as a bookman should be, and sometimes the very richness and whimsicality of his bookish fancies marred the simplicity and good taste of his pages. But the fundamental texture of his thought and feeling was American, and his most characteristic style has the raciness of our soil. Nature lovers like to point out the freshness and delicacy of his reaction...