Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Angell, however, has had no steadier right hand than Charles Seymour. In 1927 he became University Provost, chief link between Yale's faculty and administration. The first Yale bigwig to encourage the College plan, he helped supervise the building of the colleges, became master of one of them (Berkeley), was until this year chairman of the Council of Masters. His wife (Gladys Watkins of Scranton, Pa.), his 24-year-old son Charles Jr. (Yale 1935 ), now studying art in Paris, and his daughters Elizabeth and Sarah, helped him to entertain Berkeley's boys...
...than were their predecessors at 65 under the conditions of 50 years ago. . . . Compulsory retirement at 75 could more easily be defended. "The community has no more valuable asset than an experienced judge. It takes a new judge a long time to become completely master of the material of his court. Contrary to general opinion, the work of the court tends to keep a man keen-witted and earnest...
...Public Powerman Scattergood, the $46,000,000 deal crowned a 35-year-old dream. Born 65 years ago on a New Jersey farm which had been in his Quaker family since 1683, Mr. Scattergood learned about power at Rutgers (Class of 1893), became a Master of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell, went South to teach at the Georgia School of Technology. But the tuneful libel on Georgia Tech could be applied only to Engineer Scattergood's health, which was so badly wrecked after two years that he had to ramble off to Southern California...
When Tsar Alexander I founded his Lyceum at Tsarskoe Selo to train gentlemen's sons for the government service, 12-year-old Pushkin was sent there because it was free, spent six precocious years annoying his masters, writing light and scurrilous verse, getting into scrapes. He paid little attention to study. Once, when called on to solve an algebra equation, Pushkin guessed the answer was zero. Bellowed the master: "Fine! In my class, Pushkin, everything ends in zero with you. Take your seat and write verses." He graduated from the Lyceum without honors but with a rising reputation...
Since 1909, when the Young Turks drove out Abd ul-Hamid II, there has been no harem in Turkey. Constantinople's Seraglio is now being converted into one of Istanbul's museums. British Investigator Penzer, Master of Arts, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, snooped all through it time & again, took photographs where he was allowed, drew plans, read everything relevant he could lay hands on, calls his report the fullest to date. Much of that report was of interest only to historians and architects, but some of it makes eye-opening reading to vicarious snoopers and plain...