Word: essays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true spirit of book collecting" should be a subject close to the hearts of Harvardians. It should be, for there is an annual prize of $950 for the "most understanding essay" by an undergraduate or GSAS student on that subject...
According to Warshaw, the same type of incident punctuated the delegation's entire stay. For a week there were persistent rumors within the group that a Time-and-Life photographer was surreptitiously preparing a photo essay on the Festival. Other rumors claimed that FBI and State Department agents and enrolled as delegates and were filing reports on the members...
...their heads and displaying her theory-ridden victims against a backdrop composed of the simple facts of life. Nonetheless, most of The Oasis has just the same fatal flaw as the Utopia it describes-it is built entirely of disembodied ideas and peopled with puppets. As an intellectual essay it tinkles some pretty bells, but as fiction it is about as robust and complete as a lopped-off head...
...Life and Thought, reissued this week by Henry Holt & Co. ($3.50). -A daughter, Rhena, was born in 1919, new lives near Zurich with her organ-technician husband and four children. - Schweitzer's address on that occasion, together with two of his other Goethe addresses and one essay, was published last week under the title Goethe, Four Studies by Albert Schweitzer (Beacon Press...
...Dante prizes have also been announced. Raymond Joel Dorius 6G of Los Angeles won $50 for an essay entitled "The English Reader and Dante's 'Visibile Parlare,'" while Howard Hugh Schless '46 of Philadelphia was awarded a like amount for an essay of 'Melville and Dante: A Structural Comparison...