Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expression of latent dramatic talent in the New Jersey college was first voiced by the Princeton Dramatic Association, founded in 1882, a pioneer in student organizations. But in the early days of this association, undergraduate interest was limited, and the club confined itself to unpretentious plays of the more serious school of the drama, such as "She Stoops to Conquer," and the "Rivals...
...must be met and solved by the same straight thinking, forward looking processes of thought and action that laid the foundations of the Anglo-American common law and erected upon them the sturdy bulwarks of the American Republic. Into this atmosphere, charged with the frontier spirit of the American pioneer, the coming generation of lawyers will step, and the nation and the world will lay much store upon the hardihood, endurance, straight thinking and fearless acting of these men. To be one of those may well be deemed a privilege...
...Pioneer in This Field...
Irving Bacheller's novel breaks off where Mr. Drinkwater's play commences. The poet has given us Lincoln the statesman, Lincoln the emancipator, Lincoln the man; the novelist presents Lincoln the youth, the frontiersman, the lover. Nothing could be more fitting. In no other way could our pioneer days with their brave spirit of young adventure be better portrayed than through the magic of Romance. And in no way more impressively than by the solemn procession of Tragedy could the dramatic rise and terrible climax of Abraham Lincoln's life be set forth...
...Bacheller has drawn a glowing picture of life in the Golden West in the last century. He has given us a character novel full of the color and action of pioneer times. He has brought back visions of boundless plains and virgin forest, of smoking cabins and prairie schooners and Indians...