Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Literary candidates will be expected to secure articles from outside sources as well as to write acceptable material. Art candidates will be expected to illustrate stories and to furnish cartoons...
...reader are incompatible? What I was trying to bring out was the point that an article need not be upon what is sometimes considered a "literary" subject in order to have merit. We who live in academic surroundings are perhaps too prone to think that if we write about Shelley we are producing literature, whereas if we write about football or the tutorial system, we are necessarily producing something inferior. The truth is that the literary merit of our work depends principally upon how it is done. To my mind the editor who does the greatest service to literature...
...Auslander asks whether undergraduates are equipped to write authoritatively upon topics of interest to their fellow undergraduates, such as the technique of football, or the teaching of literature at college. All I can say is that if there are no undergraduates sufficiently well informed to treat such topics capably, the student body must be less wide awake than I had supposed...
...undergraduate who knows about such things, pursues Mr. Auslander, the ability to write about them? Perhaps not; but this is where the editor or collaborator comes in. Excellent articles may be produced, as professional publishers are aware, by able writers working in collaboration with men who have not the gift of literary expression but do know what they are talking about. If an Advocate editor with a nimble pen were to collaborate with a keen-minded member of the football team in turning out an article on the development of the forward pass, I for one would be glad...
This squad is made up of nine men, two Americans and seven men of foreign birth. None of the men could read or write at the time they joined the Army, and several of them could not even speak English. On joining the Army they were sent to Camp Dix, one of nine camps at which there have been established Recruit Educational Centers. Here they were given a four months course in English, and then were formed into a squad to tour the country and show the progress made by the Army in Americanzation...