Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement from the Graduate School of Education that the degree of Master of Education can be obtained only after two years of graduate study and that the doctorate will now require a higher standard of work in the school suggests again the present tendency on the part of professional educators to make training in their field as adequate as its importance implies...
Reports from England revealed that attention had been turned to an educational problem as old as Robin Hood-the schooling of England's 100,000 or more gypsy children. The Surrey County Council opened a peripatetic school, with a master and mistress, to teach them, besides the three R's, crafts like basket-weaving, rug-making, woodworking, gardening. The "school house" was pitched in open country near a large gypsy encampment and though attendance was distinctly voluntary, 40 pupils enrolled the first...
What matters most is the manner of its telling by young Master Byrne, who says that this, more than all his other writing, is a book for men of the old country that is on them all like a spell-men who surely owe him a hearty "God bless the work...
...What do lawyers mean by "Special Master...
...Dancing Master* We are now confronted by a biographico-critical survey of "the most civilized Englishman of his generation." It is a truly impressive cloud of incense, but a cloud which need not obscure the author's general notion that, for accuracy's sake, a man's life should be recorded while he is still enjoying...