Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole process of picture-making, he stated, has received a definite boost in the fields of advertising and news work. Portrait photography alone is still a rather dead field, and consequently, most new men go into commercial lines...
...stressed the fact that photography does not attempt to imitate the work of the painter. Except in one instance, the field of photography confines itself to realistic, rather than interpretative portrayal. That instance is in the case of modernistic photos from unusual angles, which resembles the current Cubist and Surrealist tendencies...
Cheaper rates and continued good flying weather draw eight to ten men every afternoon to the Intercity Airlines' Boston field, where club members fly, Davis said. Twelve members now hold private or commercial licenses; the rest have student licenses, preliminary permits which beginners must obtain...
Whether it is desirable to have students in college concentrate in journalism is open to argument. Courses in this field would be almost certain to conflict in some way with the English Department, and might even be placed officially under its aegis. But to find students sufficiently mature to be able to study journalism without previous college background would be difficult. Good journalism requires background; and it is therefore more adaptable as a graduate school function than as a college department. However, it should be said in dealing with this alternative that some additional English courses on elementary journalism...
Still another use for the bequest might be for theoretical research--the compiling of statistics comparing the size, records, trends, and literary standards of modern journalism. This scheme has its merits, chief of which is that such investigation could shed a great light on some features of the field about which data is totally lacking today. No phase of journalism need be immune--advertising methods, combinations, press service, news gathering, editorial policies, even paper itself--and on all these subjects additional research might easily be construed as helping "elevate the standards...