Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Head Master. In Spokane, juvenile officers broke up a young man's manufacturing business when they discovered an eleven-year-old making blackjacks (out of rubber hose and lead) and brass knuckles (out of sections of dog chains), selling them to friends (for 50? and $1) along with detailed instructions on how to use them...
...Professor Beer's Social Sciences 2 course. Beer, who served on the committee which awarded the Jay Prize in American and British History to Conway, was impressed by his academic ability, and introduced him to his Eliot House luncheon group. Conway also impressed the Eliot staff, and--as Master John H. Finley puts it--"he grew on Eliot House like the ivy on our walls." Finley appointed him as the House's first Allston Burr Senior Tutor in 1952. When he became Master of Leverett House this summer, Conway ended a ten year association with Eliot; Finley called this loss...
Thus a feeling of isolated, individual dignity has been superimposed upon Conway's highly developed intellect. Many of the students who have come in contact with him comment upon his "genuine concern and wonderful humanity." Master Finley commends him for having achieved "a wonderful balance between the moral and intellectual aspects of University life." He has also balanced his acceptance of Francois Mauriac's skepticism with his own devout Catholicism...
...year these men lived under the guidance of Father Benson, the Vicar of Cowley. Then, on the Feast of St. John the Evangelist in 1866, Father Grafton and Father Prescott, American priests, Father O'Neill, a master of Eton, and Father Benson took the following oath in each other's presence...
Frank Gardonyi, Secretary-General of the Association of Hungarian Students in the United States, expressed thanks on their behalf for the help they have received. He awarded a citation to Charles H. Taylor '21, Master of Kirkland House, and Robert S. November '58 in thanks for the two scholarships for Hungarian students which Kirkland House raised last winter...