Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Selected holders of a bachelor's degre may become candidates for the degree of Master in Business Administration. In addition, a limited number of men without degrees will be admitted as full-time special students, not candidates for a degree, but taking the same work...
After three weeks he and Mrs. Conant went to London, where Mrs. Conant stayed, while the President went up to Oxford. He was entertained with A. D. Lindsay, Vice-Chancellor of the University and Master of Balliol College, and, while here, received the degree of Doctor of Civil Laws at a simple ceremony attended only by fifty Oxford faculty members. He also spent a weekend at Emanuel College Cambridge, of which he is a Fellow by virtue of his Presidency of Harvard...
Among contemporary U. S. novelists, William Faulkner has the distinction of being one of the most powerful, certainly the least predictable, usually the hardest to read. Although he is the master of a swift and straightforward narrative prose that he has demonstrated in Sanctuary and other works, the plots of his stories are usually deliberately obscured until they resemble cyphers requiring careful study before they can be understood. Apparently only interested in such readers as are willing to work. Author Faulkner has compared story telling with the action of a man dealing cards out of a pack, and unobtrusively dropping...
Copley Plaza--The Sheraton room will reverberate this eve with the notes of the three master orchestras...
...following three students, who are candidates for the new degree of Master of Arts in Teaching in the School of Education and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, have received University Scholarships: Richard B. Ballou, of Worcester; George D. Hecht, of Dorchester; and Samuel Sinnreich, of Brooklyn, New York...