Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undergraduate, however, he studied not the Bible but modern poetry. Before coming to Harvard to earn his master's degree, Kugel embarked on a brief journalism career...
...undergraduate, however, he studied not the Bible but modern poetry. Before coming to Harvard to earn his master's degree, Kugel embarked on a brief journalism career...
...design, this change would entail some discomfort for the Gold Coasters. But this new system of democracy was not a reality. To join a House, the master would interview an undergraduate to see if his attitude was an acceptable addition to the microcosm within the Harvard community. Soon the Houses gained reputations of their...
According to Dwight D. Miller, admissions officer and tutor in Eliot House for 30 years, "Master Finley [of Eliot House] and Master Perkins [of Lowell House] were famous for their interviews. They were the antithesis of randomization." Eliot and Lowell rapidly became the homes of the elite with a few "commoners" sprinkled in. In those days, students could pick their freshman roommates and many prep-school students and New York upper-crust chose to live together. They flocked to Eliot and Lowell in groups which were, says Miller, "pretty exclusively St. Grottlesex...
...were the first to master the running man. Your roger rabbit rocks the party that rocks the party. Luckily, classes at the MAC and Radcliffe have just started, so your inner Nureyev can stretch, chasse and find a beat...