Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interest to note that while the Corporation, Overseers and Faculty are trying to secure a greater prominence to high scholarship in the University, the graduate students at Harvard in cooperation with those of other institutions are taking the initiative in an effort to give to the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy, for which many of them are working, a significance which lax requirements in some universities and the granting of one or both degrees honoris causa in all, have in some measure destroyed...
...romantics, Scott and Dumas, in trying to paint upon his canvas any famous figure of history. Mr. Crockett, an imperfect little romantic, has dared Sir Watter and "Old Mortality" by placing Grahame of Claver-house in his scene. Stevenson, a perfect little romantic, has given us, notably in "The Master of Ballantrae," marvels of last-century English, shrewdly touched with lowland Scotch; Mr. Crockett, an imperfect little romantic, has garnished what purports to be, in "The Raiders," a plain narrative of eighteenth century prose, with such words as "spontaneity" and "crescendo," such phrases as "a happy inspiration." In spite...
...Charles P. Parker, is an exposition of the ideals of the Jowett Club, an association of students interested in classical literature, "organized on the idea that personal conference is of the essence of literary work." If we are to abide by the principle that every man should be a master of one subject and at least an appreciator of all others, then it may be said of Mr. Parker's essay that every classical student must read it with profit and others will read it with more than passive appreciation...
...large number of those present went to the Princeton Inn after the debate, where a banquet was given, the Yale speakers being the guests of the evening. Charles B. Alexander '70, Princeton, was toast-master, and introduced the speakers with appropriate remarks, President Patton responding to "Princeton," and Professor A. T. Hadley of Yale replying for his institution...
...Master of Ceremonies, E. B. Turner, of Corning...