Word: essays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter to the London Observer, published last week, said: "May I beg my worshipers not to scramble too blindly for alleged Shaviana? Otherwise they may share the fate of one of their number in America who just paid $1,500 for a copy of Locke's 'Essay on Human Understanding.'" The "Essay" was advertised as being profusely annotated by Shaw. But the annotations were those of Shaw's father-in-law, Horace Payne-Townshend of Derry County, Cork. Satirist Shaw has never read the "Essay," and he does "not disfigure books by underlining them." His practice...
Candidates will be expected to write extemporaneously, in the examination room, an essay on a topic chosen by themselves from a list, not previously announced of subjects dealing with economics and political science...
Shaw. Said Mr. Shaw (in the course of a 1000-word essay): "To propose such a transaction to Mr. H. G. Wells is like offering the Archbishop of Canterbury a handsome cheque for dropping a recommendation of somebody's shoes or soap into his next sermon, or sounding the Astronomer Royal as to the possibility of keeping the clock back for half an hour during a big sale. ... Its acceptance would be the last depravity of corruption in literature. . . . For ... an author to accept payment from a commercial enterprise for using his influence to induce the public...
...things, except that of habit, it does not publish. The CRIMSON has never pretended to reflect a general undergraduate opinion, but its editors believe that they are correct in suggesting that undergraduate opinion would not choose to be interpreted by such a conformist medium as The Bulletin. The latest essay of that paper is merely another expression of that tacit assumption of approval which has been characteristic of official Harvard more than once in the past...
...March 30, in Widener V, an examination will be held to determine the winner of the Ricardo Prize Scholarship, which has an annual income of $500. At that time, candidates will be called on to write extemporaneously, in the examination room, an essay on a topic chosen by themselves, from a list, not previously announced, in economics and political science...