Word: masters
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According to Keppel, each one-year fellowship will provide a stipend of up to $2,000 for work towards a Master's degree. Since the amount of each award will be determined by need, the final number of fellowships each year may be slightly more or less than the estimated 20. The program "will definitely attract additional college graduates to the teaching of science and mathematics in high school," he said...
More sophomores leave Harvard voluntarily than in any other year of their college career. This is in part attributable to the recognized "sophomore slump" which often consists of having to make a choice of how one is going to conduct one's college life. John H. Finley, Jr., Master of Eliot House, suggests that part of the reason for the great sophomore exodus may be the disillusionment sophomores initially feel for House life...
Elliott Perkins, Master of Lowell House, who thinks the person who leaves voluntarily more introspective than the average student, is an articulate example of the University attitude. "In all the voluntary withdrawals the man feels he is not utilizing his opportunities as he should. He wants to study and can't. Or if he isn't a student type, he feels he should be having a worthwhile extracurricular life and isn't. Predominant in all these people is the awareness that one can have only four years at Harvard. They often leave at mid-term, because they think if they...
...I.B.E.W. men left their posts, their amateur replacements poured into the breach. In Los Angeles, CBS Radio's vice president of network programs, Howard Barnes, pitched in as engineer on a radio drama; in Manhattan, William B. Lodge, another v.p., assisted at the network's master control board. Publicity men, time salesmen, casting directors and accountants leaped to unaccustomed tasks, in some cases worked 17-hour days...
...character feels and is; and so he takes more trouble to hide what he feels than to reveal it. It is more than the usual British understatement; it is a highly developed art of camouflage and a complex grammar of indirect discourse. Actor Guinness is probably the greatest living master of the invisible gesture and the unspoken word...