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...airplane is master of the heights, is the submarine master of the depths. The lowest which a U. S. submarine has ever gone is 315 feet below surface-and that only by accident.* Last week off Portsmouth, N. H., Lieutenant Commander George A. Rood took the new V-2 down to 220 feet. To get there it took three different plunges-first to a depth of 50 feet, then a shifting of ballast, a plunge to 110 feet, another ballast-adjustment, and then a final plunge to 220 feet, at which level the underwater boat traveled successfully some seven miles...
...John Gabriel Borkman, Little Eyolf, Hedda Gabler, The Master-builder, Rosmersholm...
...whole system is based upon the idea that the men in college would like to grasp a subject. It differs from the old conception that they did not want to master a subject but could, by attendance marks and penalties, be made to do so. Now the cheerful fact is, that as soon as good leadership is provided, the students show a keenness for work, an intellectual curiosity, and a joy in exercising their brains. Forty-two percent of the Junior and Senior classes at Harvard are "candidates for distinction," that is, they are trying for honors under a tutorial...
...undergraduate career, would still have access to lectures and the tutorial system. At the end of his term of preparation, the student would submit an essay, roughly corresponding to but much less exhaustive than the thesis for the doctorate, which would show his fitness to be considered a master of his field...
...somewhat incongruous place now occupied by the A. M. degree has recently occasioned' much discussion among educators. Unlike the situation at English universities where it forms the crown of undergraduate study the master's degree has never had any definite standing among American universities. And since the widening scope of scholarship has intensified specialization, extended research work has come to be considered a necessity. Consequently the Ph.D. has superseded it as the general goal of graduate study. Because of this the master's degree has been reduced to the dubious position of a half-way house between dilletantism and scholarship...