Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excellent tutors," or that "Smith is a poor tutor." These are often individual judgements to be sure, and therefore not as reliable as one might wish. Still, if the professors and other tutors in a Department agree that Jones is an excellent tutor, and if the House master and his staff, watching Jones at close range, add their corroborating opinions, the chances are that Jones really is a good tutor. And if, when the question of his promotion arises, the excellence of his tutoring is not reckoned a major point in his favor, Harvard may suffer for the omission...
Whether he though they added more than the work of college students and professors to the betterment of the race was a question the master could not answer. Giving his tie a final pat and pulling his dressing room Mr. White man closed the interview with a few remarks about dancing...
...fundamental educational process of the College. The whole objective of the administration during the past few years, through the mechanism of general examinations, tutorial system, abolition, of compulsory class attendance and hour examinations, has been the granting of greater independence to students in order that they may master one field of learning thoroughly and be stimulated to do creative thinking. Restriction of the tutorial work to one group of students necessarily would mean the educational objectives of the College would have to undergo fundamental change. Such change could hardly be regarded as a progressive stop...
...Democratic votes were cast against 13,370,000 Republican votes. That result, reckoned by the standards of off-year elections and the huge Democratic majority returned in Congress, was every inch a landslide. The disparity between cause and effect represents Roosevelt Magic, the craftsmanship of a man who is master of the art of politics...
...onetime shoe-clerk, dancing master and salad oil salesman, Al Munro Elias became a baseball statistician in 1914. Sick with indigestion, he took time off from work to watch ball games, amused himself by reducing them to figures. His first successful venture as a professional was a series of pamphlets sold in saloons, men's stores and hotels. The New York Evening Telegram soon began to buy his figures. In 1917, the National League made Al Munro Elias its statistician. Fourteen years ago he began to supply papers with his most famed daily feature : the leading batters...