Word: essays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Results of an essay contest sponsored by the Classical Club were anounced last night at a meeting in the Junior common room of Kirkland House when the winners, Louis J. Dunham, Jr. '39 and Richard B. Finn, '39, read their prize-winning papers...
...York, As Grover Whalen, its president, is quick to point out, the 1939 New York World's Fair is a bird of a very different color from the Paris Exposition. Instead of a government-conceived, directed and subsidized essay in national propaganda, it is a privately-conceived and financed attempt by New York businessmen to drum up new trade. Inspired by the success in this respect of the Chicago A Century of Progress in 1933-34, 118 leading New Yorkers in 1935 formed New York World's Fair 1939 Inc., a nonprofit, nonstock corporation whose officers...
tions, Dr. yagts has written a -page volume that is less a history than a monumental, smoothly-composed, historical essay on the nature of the military mind...
...issue contains two pieces of journalism. Mr. Roosevelt's "Vacation at Shanghai" is a airsight piece of reporting, filled with exciting material, but marred by flabby writing: "Blood and arms and legs were everywhere." The other piece of journalism is disguised as a serious essay on education for the masses. Mr. Bradshaw would substitute for the impractical curriculum of the High Schools--in which, by a silly trick, he leaves out American History and Civics, and includes necking a practical education in mortgages, insurance, and birth control. Then, he says, the masses will live "decently, sanely and cleanly...
...critical reviews which conclude the issue are timely and well done--especially the excellent essay of Mr. Dow on two recent films, the "Life of Zola" and "Baltic Deputy...