Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Eliot, who followed, told of the starting of the Graduate School in 1872, at a time when the regular requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in all American colleges were three years residence and a fee of five dollars. There existed among the colleges at that time a great deal of hard feeling which amounted to a kind of "armed neutrality." To the growth of the graduate schools, and to the intermingling there of men from different colleges, he ascribed the gradual dying out of that former unfriendly criticism. The old feeling has been supplanted...
...preachers to the University for the coming year will be William Jewett Tucker, D. D., president of Dartmouth College; Charles Cutbbert Hall, D. D., president of the Union Theological Seminary in New York; Rev. Endicott Peabody, head master of Groton School; Paul Revere Frothingham '86, Unitarian minister in New Bedford, Mass; and Robert MacDonald '94, rector of one of the largest Baptist churches in Brooklyn...
...mass of knowledge in every department of medicine has accumulated in past years to an extent that makes it impossible for a single professor to master all completely. The field of knowledge in any one special branch is large enough to entirely engross the whole study of one man. To conform to this increase, a method of instilling into the student a scientific power of observation in place of text-book knowledge will be introduced. The lectures will explain the laboratory work instead of making the laboratory work instead of making the laboratory work explain the lectures, as heretofore. Instead...
...Selection, "Fencing Master," De Koven...
...prerequisite to eligibility, applicants for the grade of cadet who have served at sea or who have served as deck officers of sea-going vessels of the United States merchant marine, should file with their applications a certificate or certificates showing such service, from the master of the merchant vessel with whom they have served, or from ship-masters associations, as it is proposed to give applicants credit for such service when satisfactorily shown...