Word: masters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Master Finley spent most of his talk discussing the plot and implications of the Odyssey and regaled the members of the various reunion classes with his witty analogies between past and present. Finley called the humanities "an escape from perpetual particularity" and "the clarifier of the world...
Radcliffe will award 27 Doctor of Philosophy degrees this morning. Including the degrees granted at mid-years, the College has awarded 40 Ph.D.'s this year, comprising the largest number ever given in one year. The Annex will also award 60 Master of Arts degrees, one Master of Science, and 64 Master of Arts in Teaching...
Expansion threatened a bigger, more impersonal College, and one way the Administration hoped to deal with this danger was by a strengthening of the House system. One method would be to reduce overcrowding, and figures like Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, insisted that overcrowding should be reduced before College enrollments swelled. Another was to re-examine the basic amount of soul-searching about this issue...
...Houses continued to remain a popular subject of discussion, especially when Professor Julian L. Coolidge '95, first Master of Lowell, resigned from the Board of Directors of the Watch and Ward Society because of the "pressure of his new responsibilities." President Lowell's annual report, generating even greater interest, discussed the possibilities of moving freshmen from the river to the Yard as upperclassmen moved into the Houses, and Yale, which had once sent Edward Harkness and his money away, finally relented and accepted his grant for the Quadrangle System...
...Theodore P. Ferris '29, Rector of Trinity Church, and John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, participated in Thursday's ceremonies, which were attended by members of Kennard's family and College class...