Word: master
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...master stroke of Empire tact, His Majesty's Government last week gave Canada its first commoner for Governor-General. Canadians have grown heartily weary of the King.'s man they have now, dull, finical Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough. Last week Governor-General Bessborough, wife & daughter were in western Canada on a "farewell tour." By all etiquet, his successor should not have been named until after Bessborough finishes presiding at the King's Silver Jubilee ceremonies in Canada. But George V's popularity in his dominions is more important to the Government than Bessborough...
...other Harvard Houses, students grumble daily about the same bad food. That Lowell grumbled loudest was, perhaps, because it is the most articulate, most distinctive, most prematurely hoary of Harvard's new Houses. No sooner had Lowell House been built five years ago than its spirited little Master, Professor Julian Lowell Coolidge, who pedals dexterously through Cambridge traffic on a bicycle, set out to give his House a Personality. Today Lowellians wear House neckties, bowl upon the quadrangle green, clang the tuneless Russian bells in the House tower, wear dinner jackets when they dine at High Table. Lowell House...
Eliot, newest, biggest, "snootiest" of the Houses, draws the same type of youth as Dunster, but is cut up into social cliques. Three years ago its Master, Professor Roger Bigelow ("Frisky") Merriman, showed such zeal in entertaining socially desirable freshmen that other House Masters complained that he was violating a tacit taboo against proselyting. Result was that the Dean's Office took over the job of assigning freshmen to Houses, switched squads of private school men away from Eliot and Dunster. With the social balance somewhat evened, the Masters last year got back with restrictions, the privilege of picking...
...three sons, Ray, Don and Joe Jr. are currently the team's mainstay. Born and brought up in New York, Joe Ruddy Sr. won his first swimming race when he was 14, at the Chicago World's Fair. Thirteen years later, when he had had time to master water polo and 25 other sports, Joe Ruddy married a champion swimmer named Mary Veronica Donahue, started to raise Mary, Dorothy, Joe, Ray and Donald Ruddy. Ruddy children were taken for their first swim at 11 months. At 2½ years, they were carried to the ocean, dumped into...
Stoically Editor Jee contemplated the possibility of serving a year in jail instead of receiving his master's degree in Political Science at New York University in June...