Word: essays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week an English translation of Valéry's essay on Degas appeared in U.S. bookstores (Degas Dance Drawing; Lear, $5). It pictured the 19th Century master as coolly and deftly as Degas used to picture worn little ballet girls...
Malthus' "Essay on Population" will be the basic text for the discussion...
...G.O.P. Beauty Queen," Barbara. Sorenson, Radcliffe '51, will appear at the party, and awards will be made to winners of the Club's recent essay contests. Television and radio will keep tab on the national fight all night long...
...HYRC will introduce the winners of its two recent contests at the celebration. Lester L. Ward '52 has received a free Yale weekend for the best essay on "Why Dewey Should be Elected," while Donald M. Long '49 will get a biography of Herbert Hoover for writing "The Worst Thing a Republican Can be Called in 12 Words or Less...
James Bryant Conant's first three books, written when he was a Harvard professor, were chemistry texts. His fourth was a wartime manifesto; his fifth an essay on the teaching of science. Last week, at 55, Harvard's President Conant published his sixth-and for the first time got around to a full-dress treatment of the subject that has been most on his mind the past 15 years: education, and what's wrong with it. Readers of Education in a Divided World (Harvard University Press; $3) will find it a relentlessly rational but occasionally sprightly discussion...