Word: masters
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...Prospects for College Education" will be a subject of a public symposium this morning at 10 a.m. in Paine Hall, the music building. The panel of speakers will include McGeorge Bundy, Dean of the Faculty Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions, and Ronald M. Ferry, retiring Master of Winthrop House...
Arthur L. Goodhart, Master of University College at Oxford, and Professor Dexter Perkins of Cornell University, will speak this morning to alumni of University graduate schools...
...ceremonies will be preceded by the traditional procession of degree candidates, who this year number 343. The degrees will be presented by Radcliffe president Wilbur K. Jordan. Among those receiving degrees are 208 seniors, receiving the A.B. degree, 61 masters of arts, one master of sciences, 52 masters of arts in teaching, and 21 doctors of philosophy. Added to the number of masters of arts degrees awarded at midyears, Radcliffe will gave granted a total of 76 A.M.'s this year, the largest ever given in a single year...
...English-speaking peoples have yet to produce an enduring giant among composers. Edward William Elgar came close, though not very. Perhaps the best that can be said for him is that he admirably expressed his era. A discerning friend once wrote him: "You have translated Master Rudyard Kipling into music." For long, palmy decades, the world heard Elgar's brassy paddles chunking from Rangoon to Mandalay to Aldershot. When the trooper was on the tide, my boys, or when Tommy Atkins returned from defending dominion over palm and pine, or simply when the poor little street-bred people clustered...
Beef & Beer. Elgar became Master of the King's Musick. He fitted the public picture of clubman and country squire, complimented himself that he neither looked nor dressed like an artist. It was this pompous Elgar who turned out the first Pomp and Circumstance march (its trio is also known as "Land of Hope and Glory"), along with The Crown of India, The Banner of St. George, Imperial March -all marked by bombast, contrived orchestral climaxes, syrupy sentiment. "I want to write something as typically and thoroughly English as roast beef and beer," Elgar said, and he succeeded...