Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college or one of its denizens as the magnet in the case, is now a regular occurrence.... The causes of this development are numerous and complicated, and the results are almost catastrophic, in my opinion, for the continued good health of undergraduate education at Yale," Thomas C. Mendenhall, Master of Berkeley College and Smith's president-elect, wrote in 1953. "When the student's original academic obligation and his self-imposed extra-curricular demands are added to the mixture, the effects of this weekending are far reaching and, I think, disastrous," he added...
Chester Bowles, former Governor of Connecticut and Ambassador to India, will visit Winthrop House on Dec. 9 through 11, David E. Owen '27, Master of Winthrop House, announced last night...
...contents in each House whom no amount of deconversion, privacy, or fringe benefits can convert to the enjoyment of House life. It seems silly to keep these damned souls within the walls when they--and those who have to live with them--would be happier apart. Quincy House, despite Master Bullitt's wishes, will no doubt absorb part of the discontented and adventurous few, but the others will remain a burden to their respective Houses...
Perkins remarked that he "would hate to be Master of a House with a group of second-class tutors, who were asked to use House offices, but not to participate in the decisions of the Senior Common Room...
...there are going to be more tutorial meetings in the Houses, the House tutorial staffs will have to be enlarged," said Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House. "In principle we're trying to tutor the maximum number of Honors men in the Houses," he stated, "but this raises a number of serious problems." Taylor explained that the matter requires serious study by the Masters...