Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Roxbury Latin School and here studied musical theory and courses in the University under Professor W. R. Spalding. In 1907 he received the Francis Boott prize for a choral composition. The following year he received the degree of A.B. Magna cum laude, and in 1909, the degree of Master of Arts with highest final honors in music; in 1911 the degree of Ph.D. was conferred upon him in recognition of compositions and research prepared in Europe while travelling under the Frederick Sheldon Fellowship. Returning the same year Mr. Clapp taught musical theory in Harvard and Middlesex school...
...done with any particular skill. The style in description and conversation is light and the characters are cleverly sketched, although the close is distinctly weak. W. D. Crane in "Bully" and L. Wood, Jr., in "Short, Sweet and Bitter" do not succeed so well in following the difficult master. Both attempt what few people can accomplish skilfully in clearing up their mysteries by means of a letter, and both lack vigor and compactness. Whatever the merits and demerits of the stories, however, the Advocate has been unwise in selecting three so similar. Had O. Henry himself written them we would...
...exhausted in one episode. It affords a rich opportunity for satirizing the speculations of scientists; and what man of letters does not love to bait a scientist, especially when the latter blunders into the realm of imagination? Let therefore the Missing Link's dinosaur sneeze again, and project his master into new adventures...
...Sophomore Bible Class will meet in Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. The discussion of Fosdick's "Manhood of the Master" will be continued. All members of the University are cordially invited to take part in these meetings...
...here that Prince Ferdinand, believed to be dead, discovers, while travelling incognito that his half-witted brother Louis is plotting to regain the throne from which his countrymen have banished him. Both princes lack the money wherewith to contest their rights. Prince Louis has an accomplice, Antonio Spinorelli, Grand Master of the International Brotherhood of Fists, who conceives the plan of marrying Louis to a rich American heiress, Isabelle Rankin, whose wealth shall support his struggle for the throne. Ferdinand on the other hand, enlists the aid of Bobby Bailey, a young millionaire who consents to supply him with funds...