Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four Freshmen have been awarded prizes in the American Civilization Essay contest, it was announced by Dumas Malone, chairman of the Faculty Committee, at a luncheon in the Freshman Union on Monday...
...more like a wake than a wakening was Decision's first effort to revive western culture. Its first issue was ghostly and nostalgic, largely composed of sad reminiscences, tortured verse, confused self-questionings. Its most substantial pieces were a disillusioned essay by Aldous Huxley, condemning modern Europe's faith in facts, and an elegiac article on French civilization by Janet Planner...
...first copy more than fulfills this promise. Starting with an article by William Carols Williams--the first piece in a Symposium to represent the Poet, the Teacher, and the Student--the issue proceeds with "An Essay at Theater" by William Saroyan, a group of varied short stories, a collection of poems, and a series of excellent illustrations. Each piece is different and to a great extent new. Williams' "The Invisible University" is a cogent discussion, aptly illustrated by the perhaps exaggerated example of T. S. Eliot, of the evils which may lie in a university education. It is a challenging...
Marking the one hundredth birthday of the world-famous jurist, the book will include a biography and criticism by Owen Roberts, Associate Justice of the Court; an article entitled "A Secretary Looks at Holmes" by W. Barton Leach '21, professor of Law; and a critical essay "The Student Views Holmes" by Robert F. Magill 3L. The dedication itself was written by present Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes...
...irrelevant today when America is beginning to find a place for its jobless--in the army and in defense industries. But this currently popular remedy is at best a palliative, and in the long run aggravates the disease. For as William James pointed out in 1910 in his brilliant essay on "The Moral Equivalent of War" which is reprinted in this volume, there is a direct and fundamental connection between a frustrated generation with no stake in society, and the devastation of recurring warfare...