Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...since 1909 in a game which was remarkable for the consistent display of that brilliancy in all departments which have been in evidence only from time to time during the early part of the season. The convincing victory of the 1916 crew over the pupils of such a past-master in rowing instruction as Coach Courtney alleviates somewhat the disappointment rising from the loss of the varsity race. Both victories, coming at a depressing moment in the athletic situation, were of a character which encourages us to hope for success in the final and most important contests of the season...
Were an ornithologist suddenly to stumble upon a real live dodo, his pleasure, but not his surprise, might be greater than that of a music-lover of 1913 on finding himself confronted with Mr. Goepp's "Is Wagner a Master?" Mr. Goepp supports his negative answer with all the impressiveness and argumentive force which the printing of the word "no" in italics can confer. However, the right to his own opinion is one far from the present reviewer be the attempt to dissuade Mr. Goepp from his honest conviction that Wagner was "destructive of melody," that his career was "decadent...
...clean play and has never countenanced low academic standing among the players. When he began his work, football at Harvard was at a low obb. Today, it stands on a high plane of efficiency to which it has been raised by hard and clean playing, instructed by a master of the game...
Those men who expect to receive the degree of Master of Arts or Doctor of Philosophy at the coming Commencement should assemble at a meeting of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in Harvard 1, this afternoon at 5 o'clock, to elect marshals and committees and to take such other action as may be necessary...
...Museum has received by bequest from the late Francis Bullard '86, a valuable early Italian engraving by Antonio Pollainolo, a famous Florentine master who lived from 1429-1498. It is perhaps one of the most important prints in existence. It was bequeathed to the Museum as a memorial to Professor Charles Eliot Norton, and is now on exhibition in the main gallery...