Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...state further that, "Apparently the attractions of the game do not excite the ambitions of many Harvard undergraduates." Let us see what is done to make the sport attractive. Fencing is a sport which requires a professional fencing master, and the lessons and equipment cost each member of the team about $50 per season, which he pays out of his own pocket, for the Athletic Association pays nothing towards coach or equipment. Thus out of 30 odd original candidates but a dozen remained--simply because they could not or did not care to assume this expense, an expense the members...
Candidates for the degrees of Master of Arts, Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy, and Doctor of Science at the coming Commencement will meet in Harvard 5 this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The purpose of the meeting is to elect committees, marshals and other officers, and to make necessary plans for the Commencement Day exercises...
...achievements and ideals were paid by President Taft and ex-Secretary of State Root. The following evening he spoke at the dinner of the Harvard Club of Maryland in Baltimore. For the last few days he has been the guest of Mr. F. c. Woodman '88, head-master of the Morristown School at Morristown, N. J. On Saturday evening he was the guest of the Harvard Club of New Jersey at its annual dinner...
...toast-master will be J. R. Worcester '82, a consulting engineer of Boston and president of the Association of Harvard Engineers. Speeches will be made by Dean W. C. Sabine '88, Hon. J. J. Myers '69, a trustee of the McKay fund, M. T. Rogers 1 G., E. L. Lincoln '09, and Professors G. F. Swain and H. E. Clifford of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...engineer should be a thorough master of chemistry, physics, mathematics, and mechanics; he should have the true scientific spirit, the love of science for its own sake, and the love of truth for truth's sake. But above everything else he should be eminently practical and be able to apply his knowledge. The engineer must not only be a scientific man, but also a business man. His place is not in the study and laboratory but out in the world. His duty is not alone to apply the forces of nature but to do so economically; not only to build...