Word: essays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...William H. Baldwin prize of $100 offered by the National Municipal League for the best essay on the subject of "Tendencies in Municipal Budget-Making" has been awarded this year to Albert Elmer Marks '17, of Youngstown, Ohio. This is the tenth consecutive year that this prize has been won by an undergraduate of either Radcliffe or the University. He prepared at the Rayen School, in Youngstown, Ohio. He is 22 years...
William Chase Greene 3G, of Cambridge, was awarded a Bowdoin Prize of $100 for an original composition in Latin entitled "Qind de Postis Plato Censuerit." Selig Hecht 3G, of New York, N. Y., was awarded a Bowdoin Prize of $200 for his essay on "The Physiology of the Blood System of Ascidia atra Lesuer...
...present number is a fairly good example, moreover, of the Monthly's virtues and vices. In the first place, there is none of that timidity before experience that is usually the earmark of the writings of undergraduates. The stories and impressionistic essays have in common, despite these differences in style and way of looking at things, a certain exultation in discovery, in discovery of new aspects of sensation, of new quirks of character, of newly-balanced phrasings. This is, of course, the secret of all good writing; and the prose in this issue of the Monthly is unqualifiedly good writing...
...essay, Mr. Hillyer's "Caucassin and Nicolette," is a charmingly pictorial evocation of vague literary atmosphere, a mood induced by the tale rather than an essay dealing with it. The style suffers a little in places from the sort of poeticizing that marred Oscar Wilde's "Poems in Prose," but is one the whole graphic and full of sensuous charm. The first paragraph might have been written by Turgenieff, so vivid is it and so full of the very scent and rustle of a landscape...
...serve no greater purpose than other men without the qualifications of leadership. Nor is it conservation of resources when good landsmen from the inland country volunteer for patrol boat work because they have always had a vague yearning towards the sea; and when men who can walk with equilibrium essay to fly. It does the nation small good to grow seasick for patriotism, or to wreck a delicate machine with unskilled, though ready loyalty. The nation needs sailors on the seas and aviators...