[Ads-l] unisex "Sir"

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Wed Nov 11 16:22:28 UTC 2015


At Yale, they are starting to question whether the administrative heads of
the residential colleges should continue to be called "Masters". Perhaps
this progresses by degrees, to degrees?



DanG

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 10:19 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Strange how we still pass out Master's degrees to the ladies. Something
> should be done about that.
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