Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Master Culbertson, still wary of green suits, called super-bridge a false alarm, pointed out that "most people do not even know how to handle four suits, and three-suit bridge has a better chance for success than five-suit, bridge." But newspaper editors, tiring of wire stories from all ends of the earth telling of miraculous one-suit hands being dealt to people with weak hearts, welcomed a card game in which a one-suit hand was impossible. Other card players found the possibilities of the new deck intriguing. To the poker crowd, for example, it opened bright vistas...
American folklore art, such as figure-heads and other unsigned work done by master craftsmen, is the subject of a new Fine Arts course to be given next year by Richard C. Morrison '27. Morrison has been directing WPA Art exhibitions in Boston and vicinity for the past year...
...Security is more than just the defense of the territory on this continent," said James P. Baxter, 3rd, speaking to the Naval ROTC in Memorial Hall yesterday afternoon. Baxter, now President of Williams College, was until this year Master of Adams House and associate professor of History...
When, in the fall of 1936, the Graduate School of Education launched its program for the new degree of Master of Arts in Teaching, it took a positive step in the direction of elevating secondary school teaching standards. No one may justly disparage the intent of the school that "scholarship may be united with professional understanding and with personal fitness for teaching." But as a student in the school since the inauguration of the new program, I have a few criticisms and suggestions to offer...
...Until a Master has interviewed all applicants, he cannot fairly specify who will and who will not be admitted. Yet it is essential for every Freshman wishing to become an Elephant or Funster to remember that few are accepted by mere presentation of credentials. The wise men will employ all kinds of devices and use all influences to insure acceptance. It is silly to believe that the Masters or their assistants pay no heed to tugs and pokes from behind friendly curtains. Those who get in will be the ones who write letters, pull many strings, and prove the most...