Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...restricted to graduates. Dartmouth followed in 1904 with the Tuck School, which provides a two-year graduate course. It was only eight years ago that the Harvard School was established, requiring a bachelor's degree for admission and giving a two-years' course leading to the degree of Master of Business Administration...
...theme, "The Judgment of Paris." It was recently reproduced in "Arts and Decoration," in an article by Professor Frank Mather of Princeton University. It was also published by Professor Schubring in his work on panels of this general character, and is attributed by him to the so-called "Paris master." The acquisition of this important picture is a valuable addition to the growing historical collection of Early Italian Paintings at the Fogg Museum...
...which has been sent up from New York as a loan, for a few days only. Dr. Osvald Siren, now visiting lecturer at Harvard, has made a study of this picture and says of it: "The Fra Filippo now on exhibition in the Fogg Museum is one of the master's most interesting works. It is of unusual artistic charm and historical importance. There are, as we know, only two paintings by this master in American collections. The one is the picture formerly in the Allessandri Palace, now in the Morgan Library, which unfortunately has been cut into three pieces...
...Harvard the change should rather be in the direction of higher requirements for the master's degree. An A.M. is easier to obtain in the University than in some graduate schools of less reputation. Four courses, each passed with a grade of B, are sufficient; no research work of thesis, unless incidental to a particular course, is required. And the Faculty are also somewhat freer with B minuses to graduates than to the undergraduates who can pass with C's. It would be a salutary reform which would make the A.M. degree worthy of the prestige it enjoys professionally...
...philological teaching of the classics is subjected to an arraignment by a writer in The New Republic. He proposes as "the classical compromise" the frank acknowledgment that the scientific and other interests of most men today preclude their spending the time to "master" the classics in the old way of English education, and he suggests the substitution of good English translations. He adduces the fact that most reading in the classics is done by means of miserable literal translations. Why not substitute the best ones and encourage the reading of them by students...