Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THIS "adventurous essay" by a young instructor at Williams College bears the subtitle: "Being a challenge to those who deny the possibility of a tragic spirit in the modern world," and is direct primarily at Joseph Wood Krutch and the New Humanists. It is divided into an historical survey of Greek, medieval and Elizabethan tragedy, Which is too cursory and frequently inaccurate, and an essay on modern tragic dramatists like Ibsen and O'Neill, which is very vigorous, very affirmative, and very badly written...
...question of freedom of teaching is one rooted in every soil. Tennessee is concerned: so, recently, was New York. In Professor Irving Babbitt's essay on "Academic Leisure" still an other more indirect please of the subject is lighted up. In mentioning words of such universal importance. President Butler assumed a responsibility to contribute something to one side of the other. As he remarks. "Universities are from time to time denounced as nurseries of revolution by these who are quite unable to comprehend what freedom to seek the truth really means and involves." He proceeds to defend the implications...
...leading article is an essay by T. S. Elliot '10,; and was used as his second lecture under the Charles Eliot Norton chair of Poetry at Harvard. It is entitled "Apology for the Countess of Pembroke...
...successful tutorial system itself demands more instructors and advisers. Sufficient indication of this requisite is given at the present. Many instructors are obliged to resort to testing the student on reading period preparation, not being able to devote to every man the time necessary for discussion of essay work in that particular field. Yale News
...statement on the closing of Widener by the National Student League together with a brief criticism of this statement by the Critic, a 'model' re- view of History 1, a satirical fable, four communications from well known persons dealing with the relations between college and public life, an essay on Marx, and a review of Mr. James M. Beck's 'Wonderland of Democracy...