Word: master
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...adaptations very different in form from what it is in others. The prose of the business man differs from that of the scientist, and again from that of the political writer. And it is virtually impossible as well as superfluous to a great extent for any one student to master all forms...
...Pickernell '14 on settlement work, sounded a warning note to those men whose tendency it might be to lose their balance in enthusiasm for the practical, intense nature of the work. "Do not try to get the experience of manhood all at once. Remember that the Master you all follow, who gave his life to social service, led in his early years, an almost unrecorded life." Settlement work has great value as a laboratory course, complementary to academic theory, and if it is modestly and moderately pursued cannot fail to make the undergraduate "a better student and a larger...
Fernand Baldensperger, exchange professor from the Sorbonne, takes up his work in the University with his first lecture today in Comparative Literature 50. Harvard thus acquires the services of one of the foremost scholars of the world and a master in the particular field of comparative literature. M. Baldensperger has pursued his studies in this field imbued with a literary doctrine of his own; in that the various literatures of the world are interdependent and that the intellectual activity of any nation is best explained by its relations with the literary activities of other nations...
...painted imitation: the real Alice has wandered about our Harvard world, and another volume goes to that shelf to which additions are so slow, the shelf of the best beloved. True, the appeal of the new Alice is in most respects local, but the spirit is that of the master, and henceforth every Harvard lover of Carroll's immortal book must have standing by its side the result of the happy inspiration that gave Alice a chance to see some of the humours of our college life
...firmer application of power as the weight of the shoulder was put on. In the stretches in which the crews put this coaching into effect, the results were clearly noticeable; the boat ran faster during the recovery, and seemed lighter at the catch. If the men can thoroughly master the technique of these points, if they can put them into practice at a high stroke, it will materially brighten the prospects for the Yale race...