Word: pioneer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...taught in the summer sessions of the University of California. In 1908 he received the degree of LL.D. from Illinois, and last month, at the Inauguration of President Lowell, he received the degree of Litt.D. In conferring the degree President Lowell referred to him as "a pioneer in American history, who has set forth in memorable pages the vast influence of Western expansion upon the civilization of our country...
Frederick Jackson Turner, a delegate from the University of Wisconsin; a pioneer in American history, who has set forth in memorable pages the vast influence of Western expansion upon the civilization of our country...
Jacob Gould Schurman, philosopher, educator and colonial administrator; President of Cornell University, a pioneer among colleges, founded on new principles that have borne abundant fruit...
...interesting address on the founding and work of one of the pioneer educational institutions of the West, the Idaho Industrial Institute, was given last night in the Union by Rev. E. A. Paddock, its founder and president. His descriptions and the stereopticon views which accompanied the address pictured an institution very different from anything the East can produce, but one which is doing as great good in proportion to its size...
William Goodell Frost, "Student by nature who availed himself in youth of six different colleges and universities and became at twenty-five Professor of Greek at Oberlin College, since 1893 heroic educational missionary as President of Berea College in Kentucky, an institution which has done and is doing admirable pioneer work for the uplifting of the negroes and of the isolated white population in the valleys of the southern Alleghanies...