Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Candidates will be expected to write extemporaneously, in the examination room, an essay on a topic chosen by themselves from a list of subjects dealing with economics and political science, not previously announced...
Socialist Upton Sinclair might be a better novelist if he kept anti-capitalist propaganda out of his books; but probably in that case he would not write at all. Of all U. S. authors, Author Sinclair is doubtless the foremost believer in Art for Man's Sake. Preacher first, novelist second (a bad second), he has founded many a tragic, many a sordid tale on fact, embellished it with idealistic Utopian fantasy, false to human nature. Mountain City, latest of his many novels, is more a sordid than a tragic story, its propaganda negative, implied rather than explicit...
...Kalamazoo, Mich., of Jewish parents, now lives in Manhattan. A reporter at 17, she worked on the Milwaukee Journal, Chicago Tribune, wrote her first novel, Dawn O'Hara, in 1911. Author Ferber has a creamy complexion and thick black hair, is afraid of thunderstorms. She does all her writing on a typewriter. No ad- mirer of the highbrow, says she: "I have long since ceased trying to write better than I can." Other books: Buttered Side Down, Roast Beef Medium, Personality Plus, Emma McChesney & Co., The Girls, So Big, Show Boat, Mother Knows Best; with Playwright George S. Kaufman...
...first place, if one question is answered well enough there is not time to consider those following. On the other hand, to write upon both in such a limited space of time results in superficiality, the greater evil of the two. The final upshot is that the decision of whether the student has a thorough knowledge of his subject or else is merely slipping through on a wide but varied acquaintance with the questions rests upon the corrector, a situation that is distinctly unfortunate...
Candidates are expected to write extemporaneously, in the examination room, an essay on a topic chosen by themselves from a list of subjects dealing with economics and political science which has not previously been announced...