Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman 1-class dinner will be held in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 7.30 o'clock. J. H. Lowell has been appointed toast-master and will call upon the following men to speak: R. T. P. Storer, "The Class"; G. Bettle, "Finances"; L. H. Mills, "Crew"; W. T. Gardiner "Football"; W. L. Allen, Jr., "Track"; W. A. Willetts, "Hockey"; D. J. P. Wingate, "Baseball"; F. L. Converse, "Musical Clubs"; G. E. Hubbard, "Debating...
...first of the series of small Sopho more dinners will be held in the Dining Room of the Union this evening at 7.30 o' clock. R. G. Ervin '13 will act as coast-master and there will be speeches by C. C. Little '10, G. E. Jones '11, and L. Withington, Jr., '11. Music will be provided. It is requested that no one wear evening dress...
...your story directly and fully, you must only suggest its outline and leave the rest to your reader's imagination. Kipling is largely responsible for the vogue of this method, but his followers, among them the author of "The Heritage," with the eternal tendency of all pupils, exaggerate the master's distinctive virtues into vices, and as they skim lightly over the surface of their subject, touching it only here and there, become obscure and ludicrous. Second, you must never leave a noun without an effective adjective, or a verb without a striking adverb. It is Stevenson...
...holds for the value of musical comedy to our civilization but more significant is his suggestion of its exaltation to a higher plane. Is it not true that the two peculiarly American dramatic forms, the mu- sical comedy and the melodrama of the Grand Opera House, simply await a master's hand in order to be transformed into literary genres of enduring worth? Mr. Nickerson would have strengthened his argument if he had indicated the possibility of developing the spectacular side of musical comedy into the work of art that it was in the plays of Aristophanes, to which...
...McFarland is well known as a master printer and as the author of a number of articles on horticulture and on the beautifying of cities. He was president of the American League for Civic Improvement from 1902 to 1904, and a member of the executive board of the National Municipal League for one year...