Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...brief history of the society was given by Professor Baker in his speech; and the aims of the club and its work were touched upon. "This organization is unique," be said. "It is a pioneer in college dramatics. Other collages give plays that have been tried on the professional stage but the University produce play of its won, and as a consequence its productions and the men connected with them have come to mean something in the theatre. Only once in the history of the Dramatic Club has it presented a play not written by a Harvard man. And there...
...world admires the pioneer type of man. Although many who follows the paths of the first explorers make greater discoveries and personal gains, the everlasting fame of being leader in new fields of danger rests with the pioneer. Such a pioneer was Norman Prince whose courage and daring have doubly assured him a place among the heroes of this great struggle. When aviation was considered in this country as merely a sport for circus acrobats, Norman Prince foresaw the ultimate possibilities of the game, and made it his profession. At the outbreak of the European. War his pioneer spirit...
Columbia an Educational Pioneer...
...chief needs of the Department grow out of the conditions just stated. Since its development is so recent the Department has had necessarily to do a great deal of pioneer and experimental work. The subjects to be taught and the methods and aims of instruction had to be determined as the work went along, and of necessity mistakes were sometimes made. The teaching staff has been obliged to deal with large and rapidly increasing numbers of students, and has never had the teachers or the material equipment necessary for the very best results. The Department budget, of course, has steadily...
...which the masterpieces of letters were produced and assist us in the solution of certain distraught questions in the history of literature. Both the investigation of the papyri and the application of archaeology to literature have the same fascination and call into play the same faculties of the pioneer as experimentation in a new problem of biological or medical science. The study of the interdependence of art and literature may well lead to the attempt at a synthesis of all branches of culture in a given period, a subject which, like Comparative Literature, may some day become the province...