Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence" in answer to a recent article on the same subject by General Wilcox. The other essays in the number are "Du Pont De Nemours" by J. G Rosengarten; "German Family and Social Life," by General A. E. Lee; "Thrilling Adventures of a Kentucky Pioneer" by Annie L. Wilson, and a short biography of Colonel H. B. Livingston by M. L. Delafield. The number ends with several pages of original documents, notes, queries, replies, jottings and notices...
...author's writings should be given to the public. Lessing has never had all the credit due him, and it is hoped that this new presentation of his classics may win for him at least a partial acknowledgment of his worth. Certainly the man who has been styled the pioneer in the development of German literature should at least have a fair chance to prove his claim to the title...
...Tuttle gives us an account of the Emperor William. The student of fine arts will be interested in reading "Mr. Ruskin's Early Years." An article of real value is that on "Charles Brockden Brown," the first American novelist. The name is so seldom heard at present that the pioneer of American fiction is almost forgotten. The "Contributors' Club" and "Books of the Month" close the number...
...college, and it led the way to the recognition of history as worthy of an independent chair in all our better institutions of learning. The first incumbent of the McLean Professorship of ancient and modern history, was Jared Sparks, A. M., who was at that time engaged upon the pioneer work in the field of American history. Although Cornell was the first institution in America to establish a special chair for this branch of historical instruction, the most important to Americans, Harvard was the first to bring American history into decided prominence by the encouragement of original lectures upon this...
...pecuniary return from the spectators-and too exacting of the crew, by their over-long course of training, and by excluding them from the festivities and graduation events of commencement week, and too certain to be of a purely processional character, to justify their continuance. They were the pioneer contests, but the other, and, perhaps, better ones have succeeded them...