Word: master
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stop at nothing in time, space, mind or matter. Then there is the New World Water Cult, with rooms in New York, Philadelphia and Cleveland, whose members sit with their bare feet in hot water and with cold wet towels around their heads, concentrating on questions for the Water Master to answer...
...School of Education has taken rather a bold step in raising the requirements for its degrees. It has made the doctorate more difficult to attain, and more a measure of capacity for important research. It has made a still greater change by requiring for the master's degree two years of work instead of one. This it is hoped will in time appeal to young men and women who have just graduated from college and intend to make teaching or school administration their career. The changes were expected to cause a considerable reduction of the number of students...
...distressingly easy for the generations since his time to immitate his eccentricities but none seems quite to have caught his laugh. It is too much like translating Heine. This exhibition contains no less than seven examples in pottery and one painting ascribed to Kenzan; all are remarkably like the master's work, some of them are almost certainly by him. Koyetsu, less known abroad than his pupil Korin, is represented if only in delightful reproduction by a huge black pottery raven leaning forward to caw and by a single painting, more important, perhaps, than anything else in the three rooms...
...Your Toes presents Reginald Denny, first as a young dancing master, the career his grandmother had picked out for him, then as a vigorous and successful pugilist. Noted for his winning personality, Actor Denny supplies the expected climax by whacking a fake heavyweight champion and winning his title. Waving his hands and, to indicate annoyance, his ears, Actor Denny is pleasantly absurd...
...Fifty per cent of the ability of the internationally known opera and concert singers in innate. The other half is acquired through good hard work, and application of the principles taught by master teachers." Such is the opinion of Marion Talley of the Metropolitan Opera Company, expressed in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday afternoon in Symphony Hall after her first public appearance in Boston...