Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...published by the New York Times, pose the Alpha and Omega of modern economic theory to readers of the March issue. The between cover and above-board fight between the article entitled "The Technocratic Terror," by T. N. Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, emeritus, and the essay "Marxism After Fifty Years," by Harold Laski, reputed "barin" behind the former Labour party in England, and previous to that, professor of Economics at Harvard, leave only to be decided which is the Alpha and which the Omega of the theories, Laski, whose radical activities resulted in a hasty Hegira...
...weakness in Professor Carver's vigorous "offense-is-the-best-defense" essay is his attack on immigration, so common to this well-known writer's interviews. It is a mute indication that this article was written with only this country in mind. Importation of cheap labor is surely only a local phenomena, and does not exist in England or France to any extent...
...prizes are offered on a relative basis. No one will get a prize unless his essay is considered of worthy caliber, even although he may win the contest. As a result of this ruling, one $300 prize was not awarded last year, although several men received honorable mention. Translation prizes are not affected by this ruling...
Last year in the undergraduate contest, Gilbert Kahn '32 won the $500 prize with an essay on "The Poetry of Thomas Hardy," while in the graduate contest David Fleisher 2G took first place with "Bacon's Essays and Castiglione's Courtier'." W. F. Bruce '31 also won a $300 graduate prize with his essay on "Stereoismerism of Oximes...
...purpose of reading period is to allow the student course time for working along his own interests and also to encourage the student to do original thinking and intelligent correlation on the basis of the information obtained, the present system of testing is certainly not desirable. An examination essay is too frequently an attempt by cataloguing of factual data, or by hasty outlining of books read to convince the examiner that the student has covered the material. The good student, almost invariably finding two hours inadequate for a satisfactory presentation of his answers to the questions covering the rest...