Word: essay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title essay, "The Captain's Death Bed," gives a loss satisfying portrait. Captain Marryat, British seadog, author, and excoriator of the United States (in six volumes), does not succeed like Goldsmith, though the description of him is sprightly and interesting...
...Prize Essay...
Riddehough was the only graduate who submitted an original dissertation in Latin. He was awarded the $200 prize for an essay entitled "De Medeae in Iasonem Odio...
...seven or eight History courses plus related courses. Honors candidates are required to take Departmental Tests at the end of their Junior year which include three questions from the four major chronological and geographical areas (Ancient and Medieval Europe, Modern Europe, The Americas and Asia) and a two hour essay. A special field exam follows at the end of the senior year...
...central theme of this essay, as of several of the smaller ones, is the struggle of men to remain more than mere cogs in an impersonal, institutional machine. The "right to a private existence, unconditioned by history and society," is Mr. Huxley's shibboleth, the one he propounded so effectively in "Brave New World...