Word: essays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after Mr. Crane and Senator Lodge and the rest of the Massachusetts men had capitulated to the Ohio idea, Mr. Whiting pushed their man again for vice president. Mr. Crane was dour. "He's done," he said. But Mr. Whiting had distributed copies of Calvin Coolidge's essay "Have Faith in Massachusetts." Over he went and Delegate Whiting had the pleasure of voting to keep him over in 1924. In 1928 he was the last Massachusettsman to despair of drafting-Coolidge...
Currently published is a book* which contains, besides a sketchy but competent Hoover biography, a section of Hoover quotations and excerpts of the unfamiliar sort. They are not abundant. They include, of course, part of the famed Hoover essay, "In Praise of Izaak Walton," published last year in the Atlantic Monthly (TIME, June 6, 1927). There is also the familiar bit about "Main Street Under Water" (the Mississippi flood...
...voted before he ever saw the sea or any Eastern city. Steeped in the Hoosier tradition, his 30-odd volumes of verse, essay, fiction, reflect the atmosphere of politics and pioneers...
Andre Maurois, able French author (Ariel, Disraeli), is adept at picking representative material-albeit trite-in order to write a book, to father an essay. Deftly, for the New York Times, he took the main points for and against Prohibition, dangled them before the reader's eye, then put them away, told what dangling Prohibition arguments have taught him. Says M. Maurois...
...submitting the best essay on "Harvard Men in the Revolution", C. L. Lundin '29 was awarded the Patria Society $50 cash prize, it has been announced by Professor Samuel Eliot Morison '08 of the History Department. There were five manuscripts handed in for the Patria competition and of these, Lundin's essay was adjudged the best and that of W. H. Cleaver '29 given honorable mention...