Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Fogg Art Museum is now showing as a temporary loan a beautiful Flemish triptych, attributed to Marcellus Koffermans, who, in 1549, was admitted as free master into the Guild of St. Luke at Antwerp. One of his paintings, the "Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine," is dated 1568, and it is likely that the triptych, now on exhibition was painted at about that time. Other pictures by the master are to be found in the Museums of Brussels and Berlin...
...nights in comfortable chairs, and call the short walks between classes, or from a dinning hall "enough exercise for them." Some of them are pathetically conscientious students who persuade themselves that they have no time for such nonsense, and sit for hours poring over books that they could master in half the time if their brains were refreshed by a run, a sharp game of tennis, or even a brisk walk...
...Fourth, give your whole attention to the thing that you are doing or are trying to do. Fifth, do not take more than you can do. Sixth, master your situation, whatever it is. If you go through college guessing then you will guess after you graduate. Seventh, be teachable. Always keep yourself in a receptive mood to learn. Many of your best ideas may come from gleanings gained in public places." --Boston Herald...
Former President Ernest F. Nickols of Dartmouth becomes a professor of physics in the college and Mr. Mather A. Abcot, formerly a master in Groton School, assumes his dual role of assistant professor of Latin and crew coach, thus carrying further faculty interest and oversight of athletics. Austin N. Harmon is also added as a professor in the Latin and Greek department. In the Sheffield Scientific School, Professor Thomas S. Admas comes from Cornell University to instruct in economics...
...short space of 15 years, 344 men have graduated with the degree of Master of Forestry, and 120 additional men have enrolled who did not complete sufficient work for a degree. At present 153 of these graduates are in the United States Forest Service, holding commanding positions. They have occupied a prominent place in shaping the forestry policy of this country and in putting that policy into execution. Out of twenty States that have organized departments of forestry under technically trained men, 12 are directed by men who received their training at Yale, while nine additional men hold less important...