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Graduate winners of two $300 first prizes were Samuel H. Beer, instructor in Government, for an essay entitled Appetite and Reason: a Humanistic Theory of Ethics" and Peter Viereck 1G of New York City for an essay entitled "Romanticism and the Surrender to 'Life'". Honorable mention for the graduate prize awards went to William E. Daugherty 2G of David City, Nebraska for a paper entitled "The Meaning of 'Good...
Last week Augur published a book called Europe in the Fourth Dimension.- It is a rambling essay on democracy, British-French friendship, German aggression, which ends abruptly with a suggestion that only Poland bars Germany's path to the East. Typical Augur interpretation: Mussolini adopted anti-Semitism to make Italians racially conscious because he was horrified at the prospect of pickaninnies of Italian descent in Ethiopia...
...articles, the editors of the Guardian have done the members of the graduating class a service by publishing Dewayne Kreager's straightforward, clearcut discussion of the job possibilities offered by the Federal government field services. The editors have done a further service by printing Christian Lauritzen's prize-winning essay on "England's Moral Obligation" to France in 1914. When a student produces as good a Sophomore thesis as this, it is pleasing to see it win the recognition of publication
During late years we have cheered at our football games, watched our cheer leader essay a few cautious "flips", and we even went so far as to hold a football "pep" rally (horrors!) to show the team our support. A few years back the Harvard riots were thing to be talked about. These are all Joe College activities, and yet we have never stigmatized them by that appellation. they constitute an example of Harvard's regeneration from a played-up, highly publicized and dramatized, artificial indifference which is not nearly so fundamental as we are led to believe...
...Harvard Renaissance," an essay by John Reed '10 on the early days of the Socialist Club, deserves to be read by every undergraduate. The "lonely thinkers" and perfervid reformers in the Harvard of 1908 have yielded place to a more sociable and many-sided generation, as I believe. Yet the intellectual passion of that fragrant era ought to be marked and remembered...