Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ladies. He concocts a scheme to prove his popularity, but the plot is discovered by his friends and the joke is turned on him. In "El Cochero y M. Corneta," the author, Ramon de la Cruy, treats the adventures of Nicodemus, a coachman who is discharge by his master for careless driving...
...dinner in the Living Room of the Union on Tuesday, May 5, at 7 o'clock. This is the first time in the history of the Union that a class dinner has been held in the Living Room. H. B. Barton, chairman of the dinner committee, will be toast-master, and the speakers of the evening will be the present and past presidents of the class, A. G. Cable, L. K. Lunt and F. H. Burr...
...would seem as if, the Faculty assumed in each man a certain Jekyll and Hyde dual composition of character. Those nobler qualities of the Jekyll side, desire to succeed; to master and to win are to be directed to the studies alone, while the baser Hyde characteristics, half-heartedness, hypocrisy of purpose and the famous Harvard indifference are to be exercised only on the sport. Isn't this a bit unreasonable? In a communication the other day by Mr. Derby we are led to believe that from those absences which occur at the end of a major sport season...
...maximum heretofore. Of the 92 courses offered this year, 65 have been accepted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the bachelor's degrees from students in the University, as against 47 so accepted in 1907; and 20 of the courses have been approved as leading toward a "master's" degree, as compared with nine such courses last year...
...government, with the Federal colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts, with the state universities, and with other institutions of bigher learning. No degrees are to be conferred, and, according to the provision of the bill, no student may be admitted who has not secured the degree of master of arts or master of science from some institution of recognized standing, or pursued an equivalent course of study. An appropriation of $500,000 for the uses of the university is stipulated in the bill for the fiscal year...