Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family, if instead of seeking to negotiate she intends to exert her Will, she will find this country in her path again, and with this country the great free commonwealths [dominions] that cluster around it. And she will have met a force that once again will be her master...
Kenneth Ballard Murdock '16, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Professor of English, and Master of Leverett House, will take a sabbatical leave of absence from the University during the first half of 1935-36; it was announced last night...
Wright to Be House Master...
...like to boast that Boston Latin School "dandled Harvard College on its knees." Only five years younger than the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Latin School was founded in Philemon Pormort's kitchen to get the colonists' boys ready for Harvard, which opened a year later. Within a year Master Pormort fell into the heresies of Anne Hutchinson, had to be sternly sent away. In 1714 the school stood on what is now the lawn of Boston's City Hall and Benjamin Franklin was a pupil. In the years before the Revolution its Master was a Loyalist named John...
...morning in 1775 young Harrison Gray Otis, famed nephew of famed Patriot James Otis, found his way to school blocked by a column of British troops in marching order, ready to start for Lexington. Student Otis got to his desk just in time to hear Master Lovell, with vast relief, tell his unruly pupils: "War's begun and school's done. Deponite libros*." There was no more school until General Washington's guns blasted the British out of Boston...