Word: masters
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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These etchings cover the whole period of Rembrandt's career, and illustrate the entire range of subjects used by the master--religious, allegorical, landscape, and portrait, in all of which there is a profound human interest. His mastery of technique is shown alike in such subjects as "Christ and His Disciples," etched with greatest abstraction, and the "Hundred Guilder Print," where details in the shadows have been worked out with extreme care. There are prints from his early period, executed entirely with the etching needle; others dating--from the middle of his career, when he used dry-point in connection...
...degrees of Master of Arts is given to properly qualified students for a year of advanced study completed with distinction, and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy is awarded, not upon the completion of a specified curriculum, but upon the reaching of a standard of attainment, tested by examinations and the preparation of an original piece of investigation in the form of a thesis. The minimum period of study for this degree is two years, but students commonly spend from three to five years...
...here, held up to a heavy barrage of ridicule. This sarcasm in turn is directed against the detective story of today in "Who do You Thing Did It? or The Mixed-Up Murder Mystery"--only the final outcome is not in accordance with the usual triumph of the Master Mind of today...
...should undertake the work of the ministry who has not rugged health. Its demands are continuous and exacting. Again, no man should enter upon this work without thorough intellectual equipment. He needs to master thoroughly the materials with which he must do his work. No man should enter the ministry who is not more interested in people than in anything else. For all his time is taken up in dealing with human values. Finally, only a deep sense of consecration to his task will take him triumphantly through its undoubted difficulties. But with this four-fold equipment there...
...Humour is the note of the play, but humor does not exclude the gallant swagger of romance, and when the cook sallies out to fight the dragon, and . . . the right note is struck by a master hand; . . . the conversion of the Dragon to vegetarianism is a stroke of genius. Dickens at his best never contrived a better ending than Lady Gregory, or one more in keeping with the tone of the right kind of fairy story...