Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...when no man could be great unless he had read nothing more than Pilgrims Progress, the Bible, and Shakespeare's Plays. That time has gone, and the student now a days instead of trying to get a sympathy with a few well-known authors, boasts that he is a pioneer and seeks to achieve an education by reading books by unknown authors. The desire to discover more in formation, to do "original work," has its reward, but it can reap no more than it sows. The old attitude which President Quincy assumed to be permanent did provoke much solid...
...pioneer of direct legislation in this country, for he not only originated and carried through the measures now in force in Oregon, but has also been active in direct legislation campaigns in other states. He is considered one of the foremost leaders of the whole movement for government reform in this country...
...Spalding '87, assistant professor of Music, has compiled statistics which are intended to show that academic instruction plays a considerable part in the development of musical ability. Taking Harvard, the pioneer in instruction of musical theory in America, as an example, Professor Spalding cites a number of musicians of wide reputation who graduated from the University. Francis Boott '31, who, at his death, left a fund of $10,000 for the establishment of the prize which now bears his name, was university known as a song writer. John Knowles Paine '69, the well-known composer, founded the department of Music...
...Blue Hill Observatory, he added enormously to a formerly meagre knowledge concerning meteorology and climatology. And it is chiefly to him that we owe what advancement has lately been made in the study of the air in relation to aerial navigation. Professor Rotch will long be remembered as a pioneer in that branch of scientific knowledge of which we have so far seen only the beginnings...
...performed for this generation a service comparable to that performed by J. S. Mill for an earlier one, is an achievement of which all Harvard men may well be proud. As a teacher Professor Taussig has aroused enthusiastic interest in economics among undergraduates, and as a scholar by his pioneer work has commanded the admiration of those who, like himself, have devoted their lives to the study of economic problems. The qualifications that make a god teacher and the talents that make a good scholar are quite distinct. It is the possession of both in such an unusual degree that...