Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Another Master, who preferred to go unnamed, said the night before the vote, "You know, this committee doesn't like to feel it is being pushed. It likes to take everything very slowly and deliberately. I don't think there is much hope for any changes now." He was right. According to Gill, the committee's official spokesman, the issue was pushed aside very quickly, almost as if it were just a silly nuisance...
...Master Stewart did not want the issue to die so quickly in the meeting. He tried very hard, but when it was over he said in a discouraged way, "I feel very strongly that the whole philosophy of my intelligent and able colleagues is very different from mine on this issue...
...meeting only he and Bruce Chalmers. Master of Winthrop, backed the proposal. Both of them have pressed for liberalization for a long time and now Stewart was backing a definite plan, drawn up by students in his House, with the support of most of the College. He called the present system "too restrictive" and said it would be "worthwhile to have a test of this kind of change [the Lowell proposal]." But his arguments didn't work on the other Masters. Even the more liberal ones decided this was not a time to make a case...
...really pressed this point, but if it is exploited, the parietal demands could be had, quickly and easily. If a House could become autonomous and, with the Master's advice, make its own social rules, approved by the majority of the House in a town meeting, Palazzo and the others could find the real answer to everything they want...
...side, is a majority." That position was held by Master Stewart at the last meeting of the Committee on the Houses. As representatives of an overwhelming majority of Harvard undergraduates, we cannot claim to share in his distinction, but then, as the spokesman for an overwhelming majority of the Masters who refused to listen, Master Gill cannot claim it either...