Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfect setting of perfect order, perfect weather, perfect enthusiasm, not top boisterous, nott too restrained, King Alfonso XIII, accompanied by his master, Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera, opened the new consultative National Assembly* (TIME, Sept. 26) in the Palace of the Cortes (Parliament), Madrid...
Married. Cyril Francis Maude, 65, famed English actor (retired 1926), widower (1924); to Mrs. Harry Trew, widow (1926) of the onetime Master of the Brexhill Harriers. Best man was Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of England's Boy Scout & Girl Guide movements...
Today in particular is the Vagabond ready to burst forth. Late last night he disturbed the occupants of a certain dormitory with his efforts to master the war whoop of a Dartmouth Indian on the march, so that he might be polite when he greets his New Hampshire friends. And his spirit is so buoyant that he expects to get his quota of enjoyment out of his Section 17 perch in the Stadium. To all luckier and less lucky brethren he wishes a strong weekend...
...senior year some have learned how to study. They will have discovered that the only way to master, a subject is to have complete notes on it and continuously go back and review those notes, connecting the present work with what has gone before. if, in the Freshman year, courses had been so conducted as to force the student to adopt that very system, would it not be of great benefit to him? And, thereby learning more about the course than he would otherwise, he would probably have more interest...
...much better to study the material in the course so that it is understood and assimilated? If the Freshman can be made to do that he has learned something-about the course, to be sure-but, what is more important in the future, about how to study, how to master a subject in spite of a lack of interest...