Word: essay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Take last Friday, for instance. The rain forced cancellation of one sequence which Suchmann had planned to take in front of Warren House. It was to star Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, and feature a student running up to him with an essay just before the 5 p.m. deadline...
SPRING: AN ESSAY...
...occasionally of the British) national character with the sort of inane intensity a small boy devotes to a wart. Items: French Suspiciousness, British Weather. The Cult of the Liver among Middle-Aged Frenchmen, The Function of the Horse in Anglo-Saxon Courtship Patterns. There is a marvelous visual essay on the ricochet principle in Gallic traffic, and the now-familiar comic scene in which a British mother gives her daughter some moral aspirin on her wedding night: "I know, my dear, it's disgusting. But . . . just close your eyes and think of England...
Three faculty judges have named Jacob H. Tulchin '59 as winner of the Ferguson Prize for the best essay submitted in a sophomore history tutorial. Sidney L. Shushan '59 won second place...
...Orwell's now-protean figure. Hollis' attempt to Christianize Orwell is no more mistaken than the projections of R. J. Voorhees, for instance, who writes about Orwell's "Secular crusade," or of John Atkins who calls him a "social saint," forgetting perhaps that Orwell had written in his essay on Gandhi, "Sainthood is a thing human beings must avoid...