Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First comes a shot of Fairbanks running around a boat deck; then one of Fairbanks dressed in a bath-towel, doing his exercises. In Japan he plays golf, provides a pictorial essay on Nipponese methods of hairdress, has his cameraman photograph Fujiyama. Next is a picture of a map, with Fairbanks running across Asia and making a big jump to get to the Philippines. In Siam he has lunch with King Prajadhipok, laughs at the picture of himself perspiring in a stiff collar. In India he examines a snake, shoots a leopard, expresses conventional approbation of the Taj Mahal...
...inability of mediocre students to deal with speculative questions has been considered a justification for the essentially factual examinations given in most fields. Without doubt the average student will fail to produce a finished essay on this difficult type of test. But that ought not to prevent the inauguration of papers which would test capacity for organizing material and for criticizing general ideas...
Comprehension of underlying ideas and criticism of facts is clearly more important in education than is an undigested mass of information, even when it is that information which for Boston tradition constitutes culture. Essay questions demanding some reasoning and judgment on examinations undoubtedly foster the more mature and intelligent type of study which leads to real understanding and ability to criticize. It is in fields such as the fine arts and modern languages that the advantages of really "general" examinations are greatest. But the introduction of the speculative type of question on divisionals in all fields would be a distinct...
...commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the death of Goethe the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa., announces a national essay contest, which is open to all undergraduates at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Liberal cash prizes, amounting to almost $1000, are announced. The first prize for an English essay is $200 and a similar first prize is offered for the best essay written in German...
...both gratified and bewildered by your recent editorial on the Leverett Latin Table. My gratification was occasioned by your acceptance of the reading of Latin as a worthwhile and illuminating experience; my bewilderment arose from your conclusion that any essay in conversational Latin must logically be relegated to the realms of the pedantic...