Word: masters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henri Matisse, or as much of it as the Philadelphia Museum of Art could lay hands on: almost 300 paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints. The work told more than all the books on the subject put together, and more than Matisse himself could possibly have explained. The aging master, who doesn't get around much any more, stayed far away, in his villa just outside the little Riviera hill town of Vence, making more pictures...
...most daring of these merchant adventurers, pressed northeast until he reached a world where there was "no night at all, but a continual light upon the huge and mighty sea." Debarking, he and his crew eventually ended up-in Moscow, where Ivan the Terrible amiably "took into his hand Master George Killings-worth's beard . . . and pleasantlie delivered it to the Metropolitane, who, seeming to bless it, ,saide in Russ, 'this is God's gift'; as indeed at that time it was ... in length five foote and two inches of assize." Martin Frobisher, pushing...
With the decline in tutorial, Lowell's reputation for housing students who consistently get "A's" comes only because Master Elliott Perkins '23, lecturer in History, picks high rank men for the House...
...Housemaster's influence is also felt in a number of other Lowell traditions, such as the Monday night formal high tables and the annual Christmas dinner, featured by the lighting of the Yule log. Master Perkins almost invariably forgets to open the flue...
...best" House, at least not in the usual sense. Essentially, a House's attractiveness depends upon those who live there; and different kinds of people are attracted by different things: to some, a House's location may be most important, others may fancy the food or the House Master, still other Freshmen may be influenced by shower baths, or gigantic rooms, or a well-stocked record library, or quantities of squash courts, or just about anything else you care to think of. But on a recent Senior Class poll, the one reason that was favored overwhelming was this: "My friends...