Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...passing of a statute in regard to caps, hoods and gowns as academic costumes. The statute had been agreed upon by representatives from Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and one or two other colleges - Harvard not included - and is recommended to all institutions of learning in the country. Bachelor's, master's, and doctor's degrees, and members of the Faculty have distinguishing gowns, the latter also having differences of color, thus: Faculty and Art Letters, white; Faculty of Theology, scarlet; Faculty of Law, purple; Faculty of Medicine, green; Faculty of Philosophy, dark blue; Faculty of Science, gold yellow; Faculty of Fine...
...Thayer, head master of St. Mark's School, was the guest of the evening...
There never was a more perfect master of rhythm than Aristophanes. His verses are tetrameters in three-eighths time. His lyrics, which contain a distinctly operatic quality, are very fine. The music and dance which accompanied the latter are lost...
...treatment of sin never strikes upon the conscience. He uses the conscience rather as a fantastic yet serious play ground for his genius. He is the chief American man of letters. In order to write what he did, and as he did, it was necessary to be a master of style, a genius, and an American...
...degree of Ph. D.; that the regulations should be modified to facilitate the intermigration of graduate students; that not more than one year's residence in the university should be required where the degree of Ph. D. is conferred, and that the giving of the degree of master of arts, doctor of science and doctor of letters, honoris causa, is to be condemned...