Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other and main end of tonight's meeting will be to focus and get across to the team the confidence which the undergraduate body has in its ability to master the Bull-dog. A wide-spread panic which followed the game on Saturday has given place, through the process of sober second thought, to a calmer and more reasonable frame of mind. Fortunately this does not nor will not approach over-confidence. Yale never met Harvard without the firm determination to win, and there is no reason to believe that its playing on Saturday will be in any degree inferior...
...interesting to note that the same Jonathan Trumbull (he spelt his name Trumbull at this time) delivered the Valedictory Oration in 1762 when he came back for his Master's degree, and the library has the two letters which President Holyoke wrote him inviting and urging him to deliver the oration. These were received in 1905 from Mr. Grosvenor S. Hubbard of New York, great-grandson of Governor Trumbull. Mr. Hubbard also gave the library a few years later a manuscript containing Judah Monts' "Hewbrew Grammar" and William Brattle's "Enchtridion Logicae," text-books then used in Harvard College, with...
...Meistersinger is Wagner's " human " opera. In The Ring he is accused of megalomania; in Tristan of hysteric; in Parsifal of religiosity. But in Die Meistersinger his only fault is length. And that perhaps is the fault of a restless and rapid age rather than of the master...
...most cases arrangements will be made by the Phillips Brooks House Association with the minister of the church or the head master of the school through which the college men would meet the boys of the community. By means of this contact, through church or school, it is hoped, that each deputation will be able to exert a valuable influence on the boys through athletics, hikes or personal talks, and to stimulate in them a real interest in college...
...Sidney Porter, the widow of Sidney Potter, better known as O. Henry, the master short story writer, told a friend recently of her visit to Sir James Barrie in London. The author of "Peter Pan" had always been interested in O. Henry, and when he learned that Mrs. Porter was in London, he invited her to tea in his historic old home which looks out upon the Thames. Barrie was eager to talk of the American author. He had often wanted to come to the United States to meet O. Henry but could never make up his mind to take...