Word: commander
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present field is ordinarily attended by a parrot-like grasp of unrelated details, but by no real mastery or assimilation of the subjects. If the examiners insisted on higher standards in fewer subjects, however, the result would be two-fold: the candidates would have to gain an intelligent command of these subjects, and the examiners would thus be enable to judge of their intellectual characters. Finally, not the least benefit of such a system is the fact that it would necessitate of itself the kind of training in school that is useful in college and in the world at large...
...play ran two years in New York. The "Faith Healer," as a play by one of the most prominent of the younger playwrights, dealing with subtle influences in modern life, is in more than one way representative. For its subject, its treatment and the acting, the "Faith Healer" should command a large public...