Word: master
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establishing the House plan Harvard authorities hope not only to foster a broader and more pervasive social life among undergraduates but also to stimulate intimacy between students and teachers. Toward the realization of both these ends the position of House master in the new residential groups will be one of pivotal importance. Without the proper personal force to give it vitality the entire experiment might easily fail of an ultimate significance beyond the addition of several building units to the Harvard plant...
...would seem to be "a most ingenious parodox." Children need no longer waste their idle kindergarten hours learning that "thirty days hath September--" or that leap year comes only once in four. This would mean a simplified education in perfect harmony with the modern tendency among older people to master the French language in a dozen lessons from a correspondence school...
...Mosca, who lies his master into wealth, and tricks him out of it again. His laugh at the moment of triumph is tight of mouth, and even as the curtain is erasing his story he is flinging florins to the grovelling gold-thirsty who had waited for the death of Volpone. Mosca need not be named in Boston as Alfred Lunt's part; Mr. Larimore has all the grace, and enough of the busy play of expression that belonged to the actor-guardsman. In Hamlet black, with a tight head of red curls that are in a mad way exact...
...nice long table, with mother at one end and father at the other, is just right for a family of nations. Mother can wheedle, if little Miss Venezuela won't behave about her oil. Father can cough or threaten, if Master Bolivia kicks under the table again at Master Paraguay. Fortunately for the peace of the Americas, just such a family table stands perpetually in the white marble Pan-American Building, at Washington; and there, last week, mother and father dished up a piping dinner for all 20 republics. Of course the "family party" was really the Pan-American Conference...
...they did not heed the ten commandments, till they met their Master in disgrace...