文档介绍：A Master's Degree
A Master's Degree
By Margaret Hill McCarter
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A Master's Degree
PREFACE
In the old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand
and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged
angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand
is put into theirs, which leads them gently forth toward a calm and bright
land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little
child's.
E ELIOT
THE MEETING
. . .There is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho' e from the ends
of the earth! KIPLING
IT happened by mere chance that the September day on which
Professor Vincent Burgess, ., from Boston, first entered Sunrise
College as instructor in Greek, was the same day on which Vic Burleigh,
overgrown country boy from a Kansas claim out beyond the Walnut River,
signed up with the secretary of the College Board and paid the entrance
fee for his freshman year. And further, by chance, it happened that the two
young men had first met at the gateway to the campus, ing from
the East and the other from the West, and having exchanged the courtesies
of stranger greeting, they had walked, side by side, up the long avenue to
the foot of the slope. Together, they had climbed the broad flight of steps
leading up to the imposing doorway of Sunrise, with the great letter S
carved in stone relief above it; and, after pausing a moment to take in the
matchless wonder of the landscape over which old Sunrise keeps watch,
the college portal had swung open, and the two had entered at the same
time.
Inside the doorway the Professor and the country boy were impressed,
though in differing degrees, with the massive beauty of the rotunda over
which the stained glass of the dome hangs a halo of mellow radiance.
Involuntarily they lifted their eyes toward this crown of light and saw far
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above them, wroug