Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went back to his tree of decent but the grownups with the hungry brains were not through with him. Having established for all time the laws of chance, they decided to master the science of life. Two matrons both bursting with parent-teacher projects and the promotion of culture, walked up to the tree of descent. The younger of the two studied it intently for all of fifteen seconds, and then announced authoritatively. "The circulatory system of the frog." There were a lot of tangled lines, so the elderly lady nodded. And the biologist nodded...
...little six-year old boy with list clenched crept stealthily along the Eliot House fence one afternoon last week. He paused in front of the Master's residence for a brief moment, and scanned the horizon up and down Memorial Drive. Then, after a cute pitcher's wind-up, wham! went a rock right through one of the Master's prize windows. First came the pleasant tinkling of broken glass; then the awful silence that follows catastrophes; and finally the horrible roar of the outraged being within. Ten seconds later the front door flew open and out thundered Roger Bigelow...
...Spaniards, Ralegh had colonizing ambitions. His most famed colony, on which he never set foot, was Virginia. Thence he imported and did his best to popularize smoking tobacco. (Biographer Thompson sets down as apocryphal the story of Ralegh's alarmed servant, who seeing smoke coming from his" master's mouth! dashed a bucket of water over him.) He spent ?40,000 trying to get Virginia started, finally handed it over to a London company...
Scholarships with maximum stipends of $1,000 a year will be given by the University to students working for the new degree of Master of Arts in Teaching next year, President Conant announced yesterday...
...establishment of the new kind of Master of Arts degree given jointly by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Education marks a revolutionary change in the method of training secondary school teachers. The administrative board which will conduct the work for the degree and will choose the scholarship winners consists of President Conant, George H. Chase '96, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, William E. Hocking '01, professor of Philosophy, William C. Graustein '10, professor of Mathematics, Dr. Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the Committee on Admissions, Henry W. Holmes...