Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program of work for men entering in January will be so adjusted that they will be able to complete the regular course for the degree of Master of Business Administration in the usual time of two years, graduating in January, 1924. The following first year courses will be open to the new students at mid-years: banking principles, business statistics, foreign trade methods, and synopsis of engineering problems as well as accounting principles and industrial finance which are required. Five courses constitute full work...
...today one of the two foremost figures on the French musical horizon. As a youth, with the vision of youth, he recognized the genius of Wagnerian music when it was generally condemned in France. He attached himself to Cesar Franck, greatest of recent composers, and remained loyal to his master throughout his bitter struggle to reform French taste and introduce the new musical standards. His reward has come in seeing Wagner and Franck justified, France raised to a high place in the musical world, and himself made leader of one of her two greatest musical institutions. With Saint-Saens...
...plots of the two plays, although based on the same theme, are treated in very different ways. "The Violins of Cremona" concerns a contest among the violin makers of that city for the hand of Giannina, daughter of the old violin master, Taddeo Ferrari. Filippo, the hunchback who wins the prize, shows his heroism by nobly renouncing his victory to avoid forcing his love upon Giannina...
...play is a dramatic comedy of life in northern Italy in the eighteenth century, dealing with a contest among the violin makers of Cremona. Taddeo Ferrari, the old violin master, has announced that the winner will receive not only the coveted trophy, but also the hand of his daughter. The play portrays the heroism of the hunchback, Fillipo, who nobly renounces his victory in order to avoid forcing his love upon Giannina...
...John Harvard was not actually the founder of the University, his interest in the college which had been established at Newtowne and his bequest to it made possible the existence of the University as it is today. John Harvard was an English scholar, who earned his bachelor's and master's degree, at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England. He came to Massachusetts in 1637, and almost immediately donated his library and half of his estate to the college which had been established by order of the General Court. Shortly afterwards the colony failed to do even a portion of what...