Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Three prizes are offered by Adolph Lewisohn, president of the National Committee on Prisons, for the best theses on phases of the prison problem, prepared by students in preparatory schools, colleges and universities throughout the United States. One prize of $50 will be awarded for the best Master's thesis. Two prizes of $25 each will be presented to the author of the best undergraduate essay and to the preparatory school student who writes the best essay on the subject...
Today is the last day for receiving applications for admission to the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Arts in 1917. All applications should be submitted to the Secretary of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences on the formal blanks furnished for that purpose...
...Skeffington has received the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Dublin and she has also studied at the Sorbonne and at several German universities. She is the founder of the Irish Women's Suffrage League, and in 1915 she was a delegate of the Women's Peace Party at the Hague. Her husband was killed in the recent revolution in Dublin, of which she will speak, and she is at present editing the paper of which he was formerly the editor. As an authority on the social and political disturbances in Ireland, Mrs. Skeffington has recently been...
...born among the folk at the tip of Cape Cod. It was natural for him to take to the sea. He was a sailor boy t eleven, before the mast at fourteen, and captain of a fisherman at twenty, mate of a whaling ship at twenty-six, and master at thirty. For twenty years this rugged "toiler of the sea" chased the whale south to the Falkland in the Antarctic Ocean and north to the Banks Land in the Arctic following a course traced out upon no chart, avoiding shoals marked by no buoys, and all the time surrounded...
...later as instructor at our Service Schools including the staff college. While his separation from Harvard at this time is a distinct loss, he is ordered to Washington to undertake a task of greater responsibility and importance to the nation. Captain Bjornstad is a splendid man with a master mind...