Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate, is a happy solution of the dilemma which haunted educators of the last decade: knowledge of Latin and Greek is too valuable a heritage of civilization to be lost, but an enforced study destroys the "sweetness and light" of this ancient learning. It might prove Cassandra-like to herald a revival of the Viscount's assertion that "the case for making Latin the normal groundwork of a liberal education is overwhelming" is no longer resented as an unwarranted bit of pedagogy...
...leaving college, Mr. Mason became a wholesale greengrocer. But not for long. In a year he got a job on the Chicago Herald, then the property of H. H. Kohlsaat. He shifted to the Chicago Tribune and then, in 1905, to the Chicago Evening Post. From 1905 to 1922 he shinnied up the Post to the altitude of Managing Editor. In March, 1922, The New York Tribune enticed him to Manhattan. There he conducts himself as a humane and kindly editor but one-in his own phrase-"not afraid of using small town stunts on a metropolitan newspaper, provided they...
Meanwhile the enterprising Hol-Nord Features had sold Dr. Traprock's discoveries to The Kansas City Star, The Syracuse Herald, The Ansonia (Conn.) Sentinel (summer home town of Traprock) and expected a growing demand...
...university itself may control them, and that relative values may be adjusted, for the sake of the students themselves in whom all the worth of the institution is supposed to centre. College presidents are thinking about these things. They even discuss them "right out in public." Changes are coming.Boston Herald...
Tyrus R. Cobb, professional baseball player: "I received the following mention in one of the letters of the late Archie Butt, which, descriptive of the Roosevelt Administration, are appearing serially in The New York Herald: 'I have gotten the President very much interested in Ty Cobb, the famous baseball player from Georgia. I told him I had given Ty a dinner .... and he wanted to know all about him. . . . Ty is only 22 years old and neither drinks nor smokes, neither did any of the ball players who were there. That interested the President greatly...