Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...limited number of favorite studies under the direction of a committee of the faculty, and after two years submits himself to a thorough examination, which, if passed, entitles him to a bachelor's degree; if very proficient, and upon presenting a meritorious thesis, the candidate attains at once the master's degree...
...BRADFORD,Secretary.The New York Times speaks of "Mr. George Riddle, the master of elocution at Harvard, the fine and scholarly impersonator of the Greek OEdipus, and the most delightful and versatile reader in New England today...
...greater man in preaching than Nelson in seamanship. Take, then, a youth of thirteen from the school. Apprentice him to the minister of the parish. Let him make at once preparations for clerical work. Let him store his memory with sermous, let him make abstracts of divinity systems, master the best exegetical commentators. Then, in a year or two, he would begin to catechise the young, to give addresses in the way of exposition, exhortation, encouragement and rebuke. Practice would bring facility. Might not, I say, seven years of the actual work, in the susceptible period of life, make...
...medical man are given courses of chemistry, physiology and so on. Hence, to be completely equipped for your professional work you must repair to the teachers of those tributary departments of knowledge. The requirement, however, is not absolute; it admits of being evaded. Your professional teachers ought to master these outside subjects, and give you just so much of them as you need, and no more, which would be an obvious economy of your valuable time...
...Robert Whitelaw, the assistant master in Rugby School, has translated the tragedies of Sophocles into English verse...