Word: master
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...great white queen across the seas"-had any white woman won comparable confidence among South Africa's natives. Their world is still a man's world, where a bride may be bought with cattle, where a wife labors as a beast of burden while her lord & master drinks Kaffir beer, hunts and squats on his haunches. Mrs. Ballinger had overcome the prejudice. More than that, as their Parliamentary spokesman, she was in a position to weld South Africa's tribesmen, now divided, into a single whole. For the Union, such a move could have far-reaching consequences...
Hemmed in by the war to a field which he clearly dominates, Grand Master Botvinnik is itching to get back into international competition. Last week he hailed with delight a U.S. Chess Review proposal for a radio match between the ten best U.S. chessmen and Russia's best ten. Said the Grand Master: "I think it will . . . strengthen the cultural relations between the United Nations...
Following admission to the Mastership came the "Act," origin of our Commencement Parts. The idea was that the complete Master of Arts ought to show his stuff, as it were, before the university let him go. Commencement parts opened in the thirteenth century, as now, with a Latin speech, which was supposed to show as much with as the speaker was capable of. In the later middle ages and Renaissance the object of the salutatory orator was to make the presiding dignitaries as angry as possible with personal remarks and obscene qulps...
...Commencements have followed the M.A. ritual for all degrees. In the medieval universities the Bachelors or Arts had their own ceremonies and Commencement. At Oxford and Cambridge the candidates had to appear in the University Church every week-day in Len and argue in Latin with any Bachelor on Master who challenged them...
Feasting and jollity has been a feature of Commencement since earliest time (although the war has somewhat sobere the occasion--Ed.), and even in earl Harvard every Bachelor of Master 0 Arts had to pay a commencement fee 0 *3, about the equivalent of two years tuition; and it is only within (thirty years that the last commencement fee were abolished at Harvard. These fee went to pay the expenses of the commencement dinner for graduates who altended. It was felt to be a great privilege to be admitted to the society of educate men; hence students ought...