Word: master
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...discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the master. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases, to behave to him as if he has performed it with the greatest diligence and ability...
...year house football tradition continued in front of about 20 spectators, as the two teams battled it out for the recently-discovered House football trophy. Leverett House Master John Dowling unearthed the trophy from the Leverett basement last year...
...pair of English boots cost $110, Polk remembers, but the shop "would wait six months before sending you a letter saying 'We note that you are slightly overdue . . .' I bought a pair of tank boots in London during the war, and they said, 'Oh, we have your measure, Master Polk.' I guess I looked young." Polk's eyes flick back 45 years, and his face softens with self-amusement. Time passes, sure enough...
Then came the dark night of Oct. 18, 1964. Sullivan was running late. He flashed the two-minute sign offscreen. Sixty seconds later he held up one finger. Mason, on a roll, furiously responded, "Here's a finger for you!" Next morning the stone-faced master of ceremonies informed the press that he was "sick to my stomach" about Mason's on-camera crudities and canceled the comedian's $45,000 contract. An out-of-court settlement got Jackie back on the show but could not restore his reputation. Says Mason: "All of a sudden people started to think...
According to the National Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), which is co-sponsoring the forum with the National Black MBA Association, the percentage of Blacks in Master of Business Administration programs fell from 3.9 percent in 1980 to 3.6 percent in 1984, while the number of Hispanics dropped from 1.9 percent to 1.7 percent...