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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Morrow's Daughter. For the most original piece of creative writing, and also for the best essay on "Women of Dr. Johnson's Time," Anne Morrow of the senior class won two prizes at Smith College. She is the daughter of a man who was a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., is now U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, and in whose person both business and politics are flattered since he is constantly spoken of as prospective president of some great university: Dwight Whitney Morrow. His elder daughter, Elizabeth, no literary laggard, teaches in the Englewood...
...husband, Charles G. Norris, is a writer of note (Bread, Salt, etc.). Last week her son, 16-year-old Frank Norris, 2nd, namesake of Author-uncle Frank Norris (McTeague), student at Tamalpais School, San Rafael, Calif., won first prize in a special essay contest conducted by the Brooks-Bright Foundation. The subject of Son Norris's essay: The effect of the growth of population and diminishing food supply on future relations between the U. S. and Great Britain and their relations to other nations. The contest he won was among schools not members of the Foundation...
Robinson's Essay too Scholarly...
There is one article in this issue that might well have been omitted, in the opinion of this reviewer. Mr. Robinson contributes an essay on Carl Sandburg which seems more in the nature of a bit of scholarly research than material for the Advocate. The article is beyond doubt well written, but it bears an atmosphere suspiciously reminiscent of reports and tutorial labors. The familiar essay seems more in keeping with the spirit of the Advocate than any scholarly treatise on the subject of one of our modern poets. But then, the editors are apparently seeking to publish a well...
...short chapters devoted to each man are half essay, half straightforward biographical sketch. The effect is to paint clear pictures of the candidates in the medium of their political careers, intimating the fitness of each for the office which they missed, and analyzing carefully the forces which settled the fate the each in the race...