Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teachers also going and coming, taking their vacation as they take sabbaticals, not all at the same time. Under such a system there might be a considerable ter-migration of both students and teachers from one institution to another. Students would incidentally have freedam to become pupils of one master in one institution and of another in another, as was the practice in the Middle Ages. Now they are practically forbidden such migration by the attitude of collegiate communities toward those who thus admit superiority in any respect in others or the suspicious feeling toward those who come, having left...
...increasing exchange of teachers with universities in other parts of the world. If this could take place to some considerable extent among American institutions. East with West, North with South, it would be another influence in putting the teacher above the institution, in giving the supreme place to the master instead of the administrative officer or the pride of institution. The New York Times, September...
This new plan of financing the essential drives at the University at one time was adopted at the suggestion of a Student Council Committee, appointed to consider the master last year...
...harder, and indeed in that very effort may sometimes lie the germ of successful authorship. Mark Twain was a student all his life, a great reader and an absorber of history. I remember when he became interested in a certain memory system which I was trying to master at the same time. It is said that while experimenting with it he committed to memory the front page of the New York Sun on a train between New York and Hartford, and recited it to his wife on his arrival. He was always training his mind. No young person need stay...
...contributed by Lewis Gensler: "Don't Forget," "Cross Your Heart," "Everything Will Happen For The Best." The plot is frankly based upon that old farce, A Pair of Sixes, in which a poker hand assigns one man to the position of servant, the other to the position of master, for a whole year. The antics of elephantine Frank Mclntyre and dapper Charles Ruggles as the incompatible parties to the poker contract are enough to carry any show to success, even without the added help of droll comedienne Luella Gear, acrobatic Edwin Michaels, super-dynamic Gaile Beverly, beauteous Mary Lawlor...