Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tell the teacher, the specialist in thinking, at what conclusion he must arrive is as absurd as for the patient to tell the doctor what kind of medicine to use. This doctrine is all right so long as the teacher remembers that he is the teacher and not the master of his pupil's mind. Let him advance his opinion together with the opinions of others on the subject and leave the pupil to judge. Than this nothing could be fairer...
...bare three-hundred and fifteen pages, the whole achievement of Classical Greece is an ambitious undertaking, more so, one feels, even than a History of the World, because, where such a History may skip, or may state bare facts and drift on, here one must stop and interpret master achievement in universality. War, Politics, Philosophy, Economy, Letters, Art, Trade, it is like taking "all mankind" for one's business...
Many lecturers on music illustrate their remarks by playing some instrument, but usually the rendition of these illustration numbers is markedly inferior to the standard of a master of the instrument. Madame Landowska, however, uses the harpsichord with a truly artistic style and effect...
...Parker fellowship for 1923-24 has just been awarded to Joseph Louis Zimmerman 4G., of San Francisco, California, who is a 1917 graduate of the University of California and who received his degree of Master of Arts at Harvard in 1922. He is to continue in Europe his study of philosophy...
Zimmerman holds a master's degree from the University of California, received in 1918, and last year held a Thayer Fellowship at Harvard during his third year as a resident student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He served also as an assistant in the Department of Philosophy...