Some of those candidates passed or failed regardless of their score on the lost essay, leaving only 15 who were given an estimated score.
It is thrilling to see fiction or (much less often) a scholarly text or essay leave the page to seek an independent, equally good and possibly better life on the stage.
This difference is an important piece of evidence in favor of attributing the essay to Taylor Mill (although Richard Krouse points out that the essay leaves unanswered the question it raises about who is to care for the home and the children (1982, 169)).
Maybe you can be the kid with just-okay SAT's, whose tearjerker essay leaves Harvard admissions officers sobbing into their handkerchiefs as they wave you through.
John Cooke, in his essay "Leaving the Mother's House", notes that "By putting her defection in such stark terms, Gordimer makes her strongest statement of the need, whatever the consequence, of a child to claim a life of her own".
When editor Leslie L. Smith approached me a few years back about contributing to his collection of essays Leaving the Rest (Magnus Books), I presumed he wanted something about sex.
Of course, not all of the essays leave you breathless, in fact some are downright stilted and you'd probably be better off reading the primary literature on the same topic.
Long insisted Sylvester's essay was left out of the catalogue.
When I dated a strict Catholic a couple of years after college, I simply gave him an earlier version of this essay and left the room.
