Word: essays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prize is awarded annually for the best essay of five to ten thousand words on a subject in American Literature...
Robert Angus Brooks 3G has been awarded $20 for an original essay in Latin entitled "Quaestions Eauidnsc...
...Marx's essay was entitled, "The Steam Fiend: The Development of a Symbol...
...Hard Knowledge. Van Doren's contribution to the subject of Hawthorne thus amounts to an impressive, if interrupted, essay on what Hawthorne had to say and how successfully he said it. That contribution could have been greater if Van Doren had 1) thrown away the biographical passages, or 2) fastened his attention on the man Hawthorne really...
...what little can be done should be done; and here enters the grader. This man has a horrid job. He must read, by the dozens, illegible essays written on tedious subjects in vile English. And when he has finished each essay, he must somehow decide if it deserves, say, an 89 for a B-plus or a 90 for an A-minus. But miserable as the job is, it must always be done more carefully and conscientiously than it is done now in many cases. For although there is a lively cynicism at Harvard concerning the significance of grades, their...