Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard University, the resignation of Marshall Henry Bailey is a source of regret. The work of few men ends with their own active participation in it; particularly true is this in the case of Doctor Bailey. In his position of Medical Adviser he has been one of the master artisans in a new University attitude toward physical well-being...
...statement of President Lowell that the degree of Master of Arts is becoming an excrescence in modern education will be as gratifying to students in the upper rank groups, as it is a valuable suggestion for advantageous segregation. For the observation is based on the fact that men graduating with honors from Harvard are now prepared to assume the responsibilities of individual productive research that signalizes the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, without intermediate preparation. The master's degree must continue to exist as a haven for the ambitious but unprepared, and to satisfy the requirements for teaching positions...
...incompetent as scholars; that the weary fields of knowledge are re-ploughed for virgin trivialities to satisfy the requirements of colleges for their professors, is an unfortunate condition irremediable in light of the present conception of scholastic values. The important point in President Lowell's discussion of the master's degree is his acknowledgement of the capabilities of the present graduate matured by divisional examinations and the guidance of tutors. The student of distinction in realizing that he is by rights a master if in title a bachelor, must feel a gratification in the different connotation of those terms...
...college curriculum should be divided into two parts. The freshman and sophomore years should form a junior college and lead to the regular baccalaureate degree, and the senior college, composed of the junior and senior years, should lead to a Master's degree." Thus Professor Mather of Princeton in an article in The Educational Review states his proposition for a more efficient recasting of a university education. "The curriculum of the junior college is prescribed, comprising surveys of all the main branches of knowledge, and affording that minimum of information which may reasonably be expected of a liberally educated...
...could comprise an organized plan of survey course that would merit, in accordance with the European custom, a baccalaureate degree. And the high standards of such segregation would allow in the scholarship, free from extra-curricular activity, in the senior college would justify the granting of a degree of Master of Arts to its graduate. The baccalaureate given to graduates from Professor Mather's junior college, however, could not compare with the same degree given in the leading universities now. Although it would give a concert value to the two lower degrees, and shorten the road to that of Doctor...