Word: mastering
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...Haldane, and Lord Finlay, President of the Permanent Court of International Justice. Haddon played Rugby football while at the Academy, won several class and special prizes, and in his last year was head of his house. In 1922 he entered the University of Edinburgh as a candidate for the Master of Arts degree, which he received in 1925. For four years Haddon was a member of the Students' Representative Council, and is now one of its presidents, as well as Convener of the International Academic Committee of the organization. Haddon is interested in the political movements of Europe...
Since being capped Master of Arts in 1925 Haddon has studied law, and is now in the last year of study for the degree of Bachelor of Laws in preparation for admission to the Scottish Bar. He is a member of the University Boat Club and has rowed for his faculty...
...great economist Prof. Robert Commons (who dares chew tobacco in the President's office), Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn* started his Experimental College. At this unit of the University, students will study exclusively a single civilization, the Ancient Greek. In so doing, they are not called upon to master the Greek language. ¶At Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss., 40 Freshmen voluntarily shaved their own heads in a "Free Will Hair Offering", since upperclassmen are restrained by law from forceful hazing. ¶ Columbia University, in its 174th year, welcomed 64 foreign students from 31 foreign countries. After a year's study...
...graduate of the University of Kansas of the class of 1903, having received his Master's degree there in the following year...
Engaged. Cyril Francis Maude, 65, famed English actor (retired), widower (1924); to Mrs. Harry Thew, widow (1926) of the onetime master of the Brexhill Harriers. The Maudes were oldtime neighbors of the Thews at Little Common, near Brexhill. Recently Mr. Maude was offered the role of Samuel Pepys in And So To Bed, also the lead in The Zoo (new play by Michael Arlen and Winchell Smith); said he: "I am already engaged to be married...