Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Chess Club will hold the last public meeting of the term Tuesday evening, at seven o'clock, in Lower Dane Hall. Mr. J. F. Barry, the well-known young master player of the Boston Chess Club, will play a number of games simultaneosly against members of the club and as many others as give in their names at 1 Thayer Hall on Monday or on Tuesday up to 12 m. Players are asked to bring their own boards and sets as far as possible...
...Delta Sigma Delta Society of the Dental School held its annual banquet last Saturday evening at the Hotel Thorndike, with 35 members present. Grand Master E. L. Farrington presided. E. H. Chute spoke on society matters...
...Relations of Shakespeare to Our Own Time, Mr. Copeland spoke of the overwhelming predominance in almost every form of art of what we have agreed to call realism. In fiction for one art, notwithstanding the romantic revival under the leadership of Stevenson, by far the larger number of prose master pieces have been of realistic tone and temper. Prose has long since crowded verse out of the drama and all the resources of scenery, stage carpentry, costumes, and the actor's art have been used to realize-if one may so speak-even the romantic drama. Even these devices, however...
Everyone in the University will be pleased with the choice of Mr. Deland's successor. B. G. Waters is too well known to all who are interested in football at Harvard to need any words of ours. He is a thorough master of the game, and a hard, enthusiastic worker. The football team could hardly be left in better hands...
...extent and variety of Plato's works is amazing. He handled all subjects with a master's skill. He wrote on logic, economics, metaphysics and poetry, a great number of works, only a few of which have come down...