Word: masters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gentleman was walking on the platform of a country station with a pet poodle. The dog happened to get in the way of a large, fat baggage master, who gave the little brute a kick. "What do you mean by kicking my dog?" said the enraged owner. "Why, the dog is mad," returned the baggage master. "My dog mad, what are you talking about." "I say the dog is mad; wouldn't you be mad if I kicked...
...have received a prospectus of the Buffalo Latin and English School. The instructors are : Head master, Robert F. Pennell, A. B., Harvard '71 ; submasters, A. C. Richardson, A. B., Harvard '73, and G. E. Lowell, A. B., Harvard...
Although Cambridge University is generally regarded as second to Oxford in the classical curriculum, she has educated the principal English poets. Chaucer is generally believed to have been a Cambridge man, Milton was a Master of Arts at Christ's College, and Dryden went from Westmnster to Trinity College, Cambridge. Of the poets of this century, Wordsworth was a Johnian and Coleridge an under graduate of Jesus, Cambridge. Lord Byron is one of the glories of Trinity, and Alfred Tennyson was of the same college...
...literary standing of the college depends greatly on the energy and scholarship of its master or warden. Some colleges that once stood low now take high rank, because of the determination of a newly appointed master to raise their standing. In the first rank for thoroughness of scholarship today stand Balliol and Corpus Christi, while University, Trinity and New take second rank, and Worcester and Wadham are regarded as very...
Members of the schools who purpose to be candidates for the Master's degree at the end of the professional course are not required to make application to the academic council or to register with the secretary of the academic council...