Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quotation from Wilson's "Let Us Go No More to Museums" will demonstrate what one means by significant cerebration. Wilson will have nothing to do with his old master, cantankerous Ezra Pound...
Professor Baxter, who is Master of Adams House got his A.M. degree from Harvard in 1923 and a Ph.D. in 1926. Recently he has had a book of his translated into French entitled "The Introduction of Iron Clad Warships...
House history was made last night when the Adams House Dramatic Society was founded. Following the production of "The Red Mill," the cast and those interested in drama gathered in the Master's house and elected their officers...
Since Maurois has frequently been hailed as the carrier of the tradition of Lytton Strachey, his portrait of that biographer is the most revealing in Prophets and Poets. He quotes enough of Strachey's witty and unexpected prose to establish convincingly the difference between the master's light touch and his own methodical, hard-working style. The sketch ends with an account of Maurois' meeting with Strachey: "On the first day we were alarmed by his tall, lanky frame, his long beard, his immobility, his silence; but when he spoke ... it was in delightful, economical epigrams...
...This accentuates a tendency to make the students feel that the important thing is to pass examinations, regardless of the means, rather than to master and understand the subject, train the mind, and develop critical habits of thought. It has also been our experience that the use of these abridgements encourages a certain type of students to even more questionable methods of passing an examination...