Word: write
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...moved to write this by the loss, apparently final, of a note-book which was taken from Randall Hall last week, presumably by mistake. It contained not only valuable notes of my own, but also references belonging to Professor H. L. Smyth, which he used in connection with a course on mining methods. The failure to return the note-book is inexcusable, for it bore my name and address, and came into the hands of the present possessor through his own careless mistake. Yours very truly, E. E. WHITE, Assistant in Mining and Metallurgy...
...poetry is not strikingly good. "The Tale of the Stolen Squad" displays easy mastery of narrative verse and must have been fun to write. "Sea-Mist" is poetic--in part, at least--but only intermittently skilful in versification. It commits the indiscretion of beginning its first stanza with a verse that suggests a different metre from what is coming. The conception of "Sonoratown" is better than the execution, which is metrically uncomfortable. The sonnet "On the First Movement of Mahler's Fifth Symphony" is able writing, but not clear. "On a Sundial" is a pleasing but unsatisfying epigrammatic quatrain...
With the consent of the committee candidates may write on other classical subjects than those proposed in the following list...
During these busy years of dramatic writing, he has always been willing to speak and write on the drama. He has ever argued for a wider acceptance of drama as an art and a literature, and for an honest treatment of whatever is essentially dramatic in English life today. In 1895 he collected his speeches and essays in a volume called "The Renaissance of the English Drama." The fruit of his experience since that time he is now putting into shape for a volume to bear the same title as this lecture, "The Corner Stones of Modern Drama...
...their previous studies. Such statements may be sent by mail to the home of Professor E. F. Gay, 58 Highland street. The examinations for the prize will be held in University 23 on Saturday, May 26, between 9 and 12 o'clock. Each candidate will be called upon to write in the examination room an essay on a topic, chosen by himself from a list not previously announced, in economics and political science. Any student in the University who will be next year a member of the Senior class or of the Graduate School is eligible. The scholarship yields...