Word: masters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...else it would not stand among the enactments of the faculty. And we wish to urge upon all '85 men who desire to relieve themselves of an uncomfortable burden of their coming year, not to allow themselves to be in the least frightened or disheartened. The work required to master the subject for the examination can readily be accomplished by an hour's reading each day during the three months' vacation. The examination assigned is not as difficult as is threatened, and as a general thing candidates for anticipation obtain better marks than those who take the course regularly...
Upon hearing of the death of Mr. Darwin the students of Kieff University drew up and sent off for transmission to his son the following telegram : "The students of Kieff University deplore with you the loss of the grand master and buissant soldier of science. The Russian youth bows with respect before the profound genuis who has revealed to man the mysteries of the struggle for existence, has assigned to him his place in nature, has indicated to thought the way of indefinite development, and who, by his own example, has shown how truth ought to be served. The memory...
...fifty years ago, whom they constantly hear praised, had not the smallest tincture of science, The Oxford men - Newman, Manning and Arnold - knew nothing of it. The Cambridge man, Darwin, when at school, which was a principal feeder of Cambridge, heard his pursuits described by the head master as the cultivation of 'stinks' - which, indeed, became the popular university term for them." - [St. James' Gazette...
...just learning it, and he does raise the most tremendous racket - "racket," by the way, is not slang, as it has survived the ravages of time for twenty years, and Prof. Dale says it's the correct thing - but I digress. Our proctor, in his endeavors to master the intricacies ("intricacies" is good) of this new freak of nature - I mean the dance, not the proctor, - jumps over tables, climbs the curtains, fastens himself to the chandelier, knocks down the book-case, and all this time is trying to play an accompaniment on a flute. You must see that...
General Pratt's next lecture, repeating "Saving Properties of Life," will take place Monday at lunch at Memorial. As to his title of "General," he wishes to announce that he is a General of Generalites, i. e. a Master of Evolution...