Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...March issue of the Harvard Law Review is dedicated as a memorial to James Barr Ames, "ardent student of legal history, constructive legal thinker, master of inductive teachers, sympathetic friend of young men, deliberate of thought, firm of conviction, tolerant of opinion, gentle and modest of bearing...
...leading article of the current Advocate by Mr. Olmsted, head-master of Pomfret School, is of great interest, because it presents clearly and forcibly the opinion of most of the prominent preparatory school masters upon a present and vital question--that of the Harvard admission requirements. Mr. Olmsted believes "that quality and accuracy of work is much more to be desired than ill-prepared quantity." This is putting it mildly. Under the present entrance requirements so much work in so many different fields is demanded that the candidate for admission is literally swamped with the multiplicity of subjects required...
...offer all such men the chance to obtain a master's degree in their fourth year in the University, and to extend the eligibility rules to cover such cases, is a solution of the difficulty which is fair to the teams, to the individuals concerned, and to the two other universities which are in the agreement. The possibility of getting an A.M. degree would give the three-year man who would otherwise leave at the end of Junior year an incentive to remain through the regular four years, and it would give the man who is taking an unnecessary fourth...