Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hopkins own college refused to give his plan a try out and other Eastern colleges, though lending a polite ear, also declined to commit themselves. It has thus remained for the pioneer West to assume the burden of reform. Michigan, press reports state, will put the system into effect only gradually, and is evidently receiving little encouragement from the other Western colleges...
...Department of Government proposes to test the possibilities of the reading period by carrying it out as fully as possible in the spirit of the original recommendation to the Faculty by the Division of History, Government, and Economics. This Division has been something of a pioneer in combining tutorial and course instruction and its Departments may fittingly experiment rather more thoroughly than others with the complete cessation of course instruction except, as provided in the Faculty vote, in courses open to Freshmen. There will be in the Department of Government an equally complete cessation of tutorial conferences...
...Sullivan, the authoress, was born in Nebraska. Among her acquaintances on the frontier were Buffalo Bill and Major Frank North, both of whom she called "uncle". Her family was of pioneer stock, always pushing on to the new border-land of civilization. At the period of which she writes, a fierce conflict was being waged between the cattle interests and the general commercial interests that were striving to make the West a settled country. Although only a girl at the time, Mrs. Sullivan recalls vividly these stirring events in which her own family was engulfed...
...selecting men worthy of entrance into college the Amherst president has taken a well-defined stand. Harvard determined the members of the class of 1931 in the recognition that the cumulative weight of scholastic attainment was not the only one to be placed in the scales of decision. This pioneer action has proven a practical support of the belief of President Pease that "the guardians of a privately endowed college will, I believe, be more faithful to their trust and better conservators of the money given by its donors if they provide for the merciful exclusion, or even the rigorous...
Like many another pioneer, the end of his usefulness came with the complete acceptance of his once radical innovations. Others explored further the implications of his ethical code. The Bergers and Capones of Cicero went on to machine gunnery, gas, bombs and airplanes. In the mad race for the new "Little Augie" stuck to his guns. And so he died when bullets sought and found him among the pushcarts of the East Side, died under the rules of self-preservation that he had made, died a martyr to his own conservatism...