Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spartan advice that the St. Paul Pioneer Press gives the college senior when it says. "As the college commencement season approaches, it may not be amiss to tell the prospective graduate that education will not give him a sight draft on the world for a good living. The world owes no person a living, educated or not, until he has earned...
...faculty, equal in training to a similar group of Americans, but themselves natives of the country, belonging to and understanding thoroughly the people, must be the ideal. Such a faculty had come into existence before the war, and already there had been a first generation of three such pioneer teachers, trained at Yale and Amherst. The professors of the second generation were men, graduated first at Aintab, who had taken postgraduate work abroad in America, France, Germany or Great Britain. One had his Licen, en Droit from the University of Paris, another his M.A. from Yale, another his Ph.D...
Commodore Charlton has had a varled and intensely interesting career, ranging from pioneer work in Central Africa to aviation. It is as an aviator, however, that he has gained his reputation, being one of the most experienced men in the British Air Service at the present time. He has been an active flier since 1911, and except for infrequent intervals he was on the wastern front during the whole course of the war. He is now stationed in Washington, as Air Attache to the British Embassy...
...composition and literature, and his large course in comparative literature known as "Comp. Lit. 1," which followed the current of literary expression from the days of the Greek dramatists and philosophers up to modern times was always popular. He was an cminent scholar of American literature and a pioneer in the development of modern instruction in English composition, the methods of teaching which he originated having been adopted to a greater or less degree in colleges all over the country...
...first Wednesday in March Captain Daniel A. McKay will tolk on his personal experiences in the Canadian Northwest during the pioneer days as a member of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. During the World War, Captain MacKay had charge of the military forces in the district around Camp Devens...