Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe that the firm which is generally credited with being the real pioneer was the firm of George P. Rowell & Company which was established in 1865 in New York City," said Mr. H. K. McCann, President of the McCann Advertising Agency of New York City, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON on the origin, organization and function of the advertising agency in modern business. "This agency secured rate cards from newspapers all over the country and made some effort to appraise advertising values. It was the first agency that was equipped to recommend to an advertiser a list...
...drama", he declared, and went on to dwell at length on the few evidences of a dramatic revival in American hails of learning. Foremost among these latter is the 47 Workshop at the University, given under the direction of Professor G. P. Baker '87. This is the pioneer course in dramatics among American colleges. Its object it not to study the drama as literature so much as to take it up as a practical art, recognizing the claim of the creative artist, and giving him this vehicle of practice and self expression. There has long been a lack of understanding...
...self respecting man who values a clean record, he will be none the worse off for a few hard knocks. In spite of what Senator Walsh says, no remedy can be found in discouraging the college man from entering politics. There must be more than the occasional bold pioneer of today; the college graduate in public offices should be the usual thing tomorrow. Then, perhaps, the question of higher salaries can be discussed--not while the offices are in the hands of incompetent men. With city government in its present deplorable state, it should require only a few strong leaders...
...dirty minded are allowed to monopolize them. The only way by which the high-minded citizen can remedy the evils he bewails is to wade into the mire and fight for the community. The college man who has the courage to take such a step will not be a pioneer. He will have as an example the greatest of Harvard graduates--Theodore Roosevelt...
...corn eaten by the first president of Yale. The historian further informs us that he who has never tasted "pone" bread made from the corn-meal ground in the old-fashioned water mills has missed the greatest of body-building foods, the food upon which throve the husky pioneer of colonial days. By the ancient method was retained all the valuable ingredients that made the flour nourishing, and that are carefully removed by the modern process...