Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the Eliot House Committee and winner of the Lee Wade and Boylston recitation prizes this -year, Blackwell is well known for his ability to mimic Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and Master of Eliot House...
...graduated from the University of California in 1934 with highest honors in political science. He received a Master's degree the next year and his Jurisprudence degree the following year...
...University is a planetarium and its faculty is the firmament cast on the dome, then Harvard has, during the last week, greatly brightened her projector. For to Harvard comes Robert Frost, owner of a scintillating name in American poetry. Also Go Strawinsky, master of savage rhythms and colorful orchestrations, conceded by even his intellectual critics as one of the three most popular living composers. And finally I. A. Richards, propounder of impressive literary theories and leading searcher after values in this drifting generation. The total is a quite amazing addition to the list of big names sported by Harvard...
...Noon" by Kenneth B. Murdock, professor of English and Master of Leverett House, is cited in the article as an example of the teaching of past events and obscure personages, while "The New Deal in Action, 1932-1938," by Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History, is mentioned as dealing with "the sunshine and shadow of today" rather than with the remote "sun-at-noon stuff...
...position of the Master is not an enviable one. He must interview a large group of men in a very short time, and make a selection, based not on a simple criterion such as scholastic standing, which, as the editorial admits, would be unfair, but rather on a large number of factors, such as interest in outside activities, friends in the House, accessibility to a desired tutor, and the number of rooms available in the applicant's price range...