Word: essays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three judges of the annual Union Essay Contest last night announced that J. R. Creel '27 had been awarded the first prize of $35 for his essay entitled "Education and Democracy", and that the second prize of $15 had been won by Austin Wright 2G for his essay Back Stage". The judges were Professor K. G. T. Webster '93, Langdon Warnor '03, and L. D. Peterkin...
...Woodrow Wilson $50,000 Prize Essay Contest, which closes October 1, 92 supplementary prizes, totalling $7000, will be awarded, it was announced yesterday by Mr. Henry Morgenthau Vice-President of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. This is in addition to the two first prizes of $25,000 each,to be awarded to the man and woman whom the jury decide to have written the best 2500 word essays on "What Woodrow Wilson means...
...suspect this book will seem a trifle old-fashioned to many people. Towards the end of each essay there is a tendency towards gentle moralizing; pervading them is a keen contagious love of nature and of simple things. For most readers it should furnish an excellent after Divisionals tonic...
...anglers luckless with the fly this essay has proved a great boon. What if it did ruin the author's reputation as a fisherman? Although "Fishing with a Fly" and "Revisiting a River" contain the same charm, the same dry humor and lucid beautiful prose, they can not surpass this defense of the amateur fisherman. Why, I can not say, for such a paragraph as this lacks nothing...
Such technicalities, however, cannot mar the excellence of the book as a whole. Its compact size, its wide variety--and the fine Essay on Poetry which Professor Gay has prefixed to his choices, should make it one of the most popular books of its type. As a collection of English and American verse from the Middle English period to the present time it is the best small book yet published...