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More About the Professor Who Preaches Posing, But Carries His Own Groceries LJythe Ba k er, A meric* n PianoIoguisJtr, Who, at I let Pres* Agent * ^tiggeatipn. Adopted a •'riM'jl* of Snobber frhich Mad© Her th I oast of London Soci* •' v and. Incidental! v, Won He- a Blue-Blood . ed Bridegroom. * •< '’Snoboffruphs (lutiiionni* ) : <\ Description of Snobs.” — I link <S \S i»3 5T.TlI»’ Mandard Dictionary. ra snob!'' was the unusual a'i * * r"^ \ ue shot at the amazed mam MmJ hers of the 1929 Massachu *slta Institute of Technology gradual DOING HER STUFF1 This Caricature of Mio Baker Depicts Her In the Daya When She Was Just a Vaudeville Performer. ing c!a:=s by T’rofessor Rob i t hi. Roger* of he Department if English re cently. Stand - patter , dreader* of short, ugly words, all the forces of con \ ention raised horrified palms in protest against such iconoclasm. 'Liieu began the bandying - about o T dinuiiirnvr. "Ju't what is a snob?' there different varieties?” "Does o true snob infest or beautify the body politic'.'” But what the intelheml nvinoM'y wanted to Know was. *** >ort of man would publicly defend •nobbery? W hat's his personality like, his habits, his appearance, family, ■ friends?; Is he himself a snob? Or was the speech just a genial “ride ’ for the unwary? Here the curious ones hit a snag, for aside from his considerable scholastic ittainments, little had ;ceped out from “Tech” ibout the Professor. Even lien who had studied un lor him proiesseu ignorance m me ine points so eagerly sought. Most, of these same men had been lot a little surprised when they heard he Professor deliver the following iirecepts as necessary to the achieve ment of what the highbrow New Tie public called “that which every Ameri can knows God expects him to achieve —Success.” Here are Professor Rogers’s “musts in conduct for the ambitious nati'c youth who would get there : 1— Be a snob. 2— Set before younelf a definite plan In be a ruling person. .7—Be luperior: art superior. 1 alb . like it. 1 hink like it. 4— Brain* ate not nearly so ini port ant a s iriM. 5— Found a family that trill hr *ucee**ful. The ambition*, atpiring mm are uluays marrying a little higher in the soctal teale. It i* jutl o» rosy to marry the bo*** daughter os the tlrnographet. ft—Join a good club. Fat like a SNOBOGRAPMtK3 CHILD Pretty Desiree Rogers, Daughter of tho "Tech Protestor Whota Ultimatum to Hit Students to "Be ^ superior; act superior,” Caused Such Nation wide Comment. gentleman and de mand good larrica at your clubs and, abaca all, be tcith gentleman. 7—A snob unirer lily gait tha moU publicity and tha most money. if hat goes for a unitariily goal 'for an Individual at trail. What are the soul, the brain, the social halo (if any) behind such re markable remarks? An interview with the elusive Professor, amiable but hard to fer ret out, disclosed strik ing facta about him— all the more striking be cause the revelations Thaokaray aataoiiahad tha word "snob* In England aa moaning a TOlgar fallow who apad hla is parlora. Tha word doaon't aaam ta naan that at all in loarioa ••• Tin word la alnply a tnaar, applied by paopla who know no battar* ta anybody who poasasaaa any tnparlorlty of apaaoh* man \ naro, oarrlaga, and lntallaotnal * praoaaaaa. What llie Dictionary Sa>» s About Snob* • noH , 1 «nob; 2 snob, «■ 1. A person who vulgarly affects gentility, or pretends to a suneriorite he docs not possess: one who apes and cringes to his superiors and is overbearing to those upon whom he looks as beneath him; one who regards wealth or position rather than character. k tuft hunter 1» * tnnb. a plrteltr t« a »nob, the man who allows tha manhood wtthtn him to be awed b.v a coronet la a * 'Ob. The man who worship* mere wealth It a snob. Trollop* W. M. Thocktray p. IL*.18S4.] 2. [L'niv. Slang.] A townsman, as op posed to a gownsman or member of the university. 3. [Prov. Eng.] A workman who continues at work when his fellow workmen strike, or who works for lower wastes thsn others: a knobstick. 4. fLoral. Eng. A U. S.l A journeyman shoemaker. [Ice. tnapr, dunce.]—*nob’“atiek", «■ [Slang.] Same as snob1, « . 3.—anob’bar-y, ft The characteristics or conduct of snobs; snobbishness. anob'btam:}.— anob’ling, **. A little snob, anob.og'ra-pby, 1 snob-og ra-fi; 2 snob og ra-fv, n. [Humorous.] A desrrip non ot snobs, [snob1, n. -> -graphy.l —anob-og'ra-pher, **• One who writes about snobs 1 He Dictionary Definition of a Snob with (Above) Quotation from Profenor Roger'a Speech Controlling Thacheray'i Uie of the Term with That Generally Employed in America. Six Success Pointers by the Chief of the Boy Scouts WALTER W. HEAD ment is so bril liant that we ai p dazzled by its light and fail to realize the painstaking toil which made it pos sible. Some c a 11 Thomas A. Edison a geniua. Yet, th r o u g hout his long lifetime, he has been one of the hardest-work ing men of his generation. —Linked with — diligence, there must be persever ance and determi nation. Diligence achieves s u c c e ss only if tt is applied steadily upon a definite course, for a specific end. That i s perseverance. Perseverance i s that quality which leads men to apply their labor upon a definite, charted path instead of wasting effort in aimless toil. The boring of the Mof fatt tunnel through the mountains west of Denver was a triumph of perseveran ce. Equal diligence might have built a railroad which would have wan 11/ALTER W. HEAD, as president of the State Bank of Chicago, las become one of the most prominent financiers of the United States and is also nationally famous as president of the Boy Scout movement in this coun try. Born in Adrian, III., fifty-one years ago, Mr. Head passed his boyhood on his father’s farm in Missouri follow •ng a team of mules hitched to a plough. He was graduated from a normal school and began his business't career in 1900 as a school teacher. He held various jobs as bank examiner and cashier. In 1917 he became vice president of the Omaha National Bank. He twice has refused positions carrying salaries of $100,000 a year. SUCCESS is naturally man’s goal. Sucsess may mean one thing to one man and something quite dif ferent to another. Success may mean one thing to one man at one period of life and quite another thing to the same man as he grows older. "I—Success, for most men and women, is attained only by diligence. Dili gence is but another word for toil, for labor. Occasionally we see a man who appear* to win success without dili gence. We call him a genius. Per sonally, I have never known a man who truly measured up to this definition, we term genius usually is merely -v vie sudden flowering of achievement kpon a stem which has long been culti vated with exceeding care. The achieve dered through a dozen canyons, uij steep grades and around sharp curves. Perservance kept the line straight, despite all obstacles, and turned dili gence to profitable achievement. *J—Success requires consistency. No man can win success who dis agrees with himself. At the beginning of each major undertaking, he must map his course. He must pick one course and fix upon one goal to the exclusion of all others—and he must lie consistent to that end. Many a man fails to leave his mark upon his genera tion because he is not consistent. He does one thing ^oday and something else tomorrow. He does each thing well. He is diligent and he perseveres. But he does not harmonize nis various activities. His effort is not consistent. When he reaches the eventide of life, he may look back upon a life not wasted but still not upon a life which has contributed markedly to the ad vancement of himself or his fellow men. /J—Then, too, a successful man must be courageous. He must not quail before dangers; he must not fear dan gers which are unknown. He must have confidence in his own strength, confidence in his own purpose. There is a certain success which is a partial success. It is a success achieved bv men who have “almost arrived,” but who. somehow, have just missed the glories of real achievement. That fail ure, usually, has been due to a lack of courage* I hey have been amgent, pcrseverant and consisSwB. Bat, whwi the crisis came, when the issue was in the balance, when success hung unon their willingness to stake the last ounce of strength, the last drop of energy—there they faltered. “—Another important element in •* achieving success is the ability and the willingness to take the initiative. This quality cannot be taught in the college classroom and yet it is nor mally made possible only by the ex tent of man’s knowledge of the prob lem which he seeks to solve. Ability to take the initiative depends upon knowledge of the subject in hand. No man can act unless he is prepared to act. Initiative follows preparation. He who takes the initiative without knowledge, without preparation, is foolhardy. Yet he who possesses knowl edge anil does not act uoon it cannot succeed. In the business world, lack of initiative keeps one man a* a clerk’s desk for an entire lifetime; the ability and the willingness to take the initia tive lifts another man out of the rou tine and wins him promotion to the positions of executive responsibility. s.—i^iosejy linaeo wun in« power initiative ii the power of decision. It3 necessity is well illustrated by the old saying—old, but Uue: “He who hesitates is lost.’’ Never, in ail our history, was this more, truly applicable than it is today. Our modern life runs a swift pace. The rapidity of commu nication and of transportation has quickened the speed with which we live, has lessened the time which we may take for a particular decision. Therefore, as never before—let me emphasize — success today depends upon tlte power to make and enforce a decision—to decide quickly and to decide correctly. All of the other qualities of success constitute a prepa ration for this final, necessary quality. Education is necessary, diligence is necessary, perseverance is necessary, consistency and courage are necessary —but all of these are but preparatory to the determination of what is to be done at a particular moment and to the enforcement of that decision. The power of decision is the outstanding quality of every great executive. The ABC’s of General Knowledge The Ten Greatest World Expositions PaaiawPaci6« Sm KrtneiKo •50,000,000 Based on l neir uw Official Sources Chart by FRELING FOSTER The One Outstanding 4International Exhibition Was the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. World'. Columbia ■■XJlieogo Freneh Inter national Pari* i*i' V*<jo> Cm trinial Phila delphia - - • 9m FranrJaco, 191S. • ,T. irAOOOAW World's Columbian, Qk«|«, 1893.' 31,000,000 French lalemiioBil, Pari*, 1900 . 27,000,000 VequbCenieanial, Philadelphia, 1926...... 26,000,000 Louisiana Purchase, St. LmOa, 1901... 20,000,000 Brazilian Centennial, Rio da Janeiro, 1922 90,000400 British Empire, WenWey, Ei|., 1924...... 13.000,000 Austrian International, Vienna, 1873....... 10,000,000 Jamestown Tercentennial, Va, I90T.. 10,000,000 AlaaksYikteParifk, Vatlk 1909. . . . . 10 000,000 ftraciiirv Loaii^ Ob UU v IdUUBl PnreluM Rio df It. l-ouia Janeiro flrituti tapir. WanblcT Andrian *®wu Alaalu Inler* Tww Y nkmv national tnaial Parilr Vienna. ,Va._ jnnh ■Mm 'M Ooprrifbt, 1929, International Feature ierrtca, Inc. Great Britain Uighto Reiarved. ICONOCLAST Profeaaor Robert E. Rogera, of tho Maaaachuaettea Inatituta of Technology, Whoae “Bo a anob!" Slana Aitoniahed Hia Pupila. Aa Anolyaia of Mia Character, Paraonality and Traita ia Appended were indirect. These distinguishing characteristics stood out; Professor Rogers is: Modest. Doesn't like to be ad dressed as “Doctor” or any other hon orary title. Although bo^n in N»w .ler.ev is an “out-and-out Yankee,” Is blunt in speech, though courteous. His manner is ordinarily rasu; 1, good-natured and genial. 1* also very democratic. In the neighborhood of Rockport, where he lives, is known to everybody from taxi drivers to fisher men. • Carries his own parcels unashamedly in broad daylight—surely no indica t'on or snobbery. Is frenuentlv seen on t * street his arms oiled liigh with r1 groceries. “ Wear* knickerbockers and smoke* • plebeian-looking pipe. Affects brightly colored shirt*. His laugh is deep, reso nant and rich. Is said by various friends to ro semblo the lately deposed Premise Stanley Baldwin, of Great Britain; Gen. Charles G. Dawes, recently ap pointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s: John W. Gates, of "Betcha a million" fame; Hugh Walpole, novel ist, and half a dozen other celebrities with full, rounded, characterfirl faces. Is very lazy. Spurns all exercise. Won't walk three steps if there’s a taxi handy. Has a car, but doesn’t drive it. His wife doe*. Is utterly unafferted. Hates poses. His speech is "civilized ^merienn” with no trace of Oxford drawl or Harvard broad a’s. Was originally red-haired. Has a few gray ones now. Isn’t interested in sports. Attend* football games “as a sort of duty." Doesn’t even play pin? pong. Has a passion for literature, and the drama. Likes tl « theatre rlmo«t he; ter than any tiling in the world. Mr.ude Adams gave h m a job as pro's leader in Barne s "What Every Wo man Knows.” • His hobby is reading. Has a pretty daughter. Has drastic opinions on lit erature. "Bad hooze couldn’t’ b» worse than some of the stuff mailed us between covers. Books are potential mental food and drink, hut also po tential dynamite and poison.” Doesn’t believe in censorship. Bn CLAREJWRRAY-GiHPod-Artist CAN THIS BE LOVE? (On theRiverbink) "1 shall open my heart to the rain.” Lu,ve, aisturos my peace again. Why docs he come unbidden.* / do not uish. to love again. I am far too conscious of darkly hidden Embers that once were flaming gold Smoldering still tn my hear!. Sothmg is left to burn again. Sothing can sear or smart. I told him so, but he only laughed With merry and mocking eyes. “Little I care to kindle a fire. 1 never destroy. 1 am wise. ijVJE, is the love that lifts— The ocean that carries the ship— The Wind in tl:e sail And the dancing feet And the bread to eat.” Can this be love that tcould leave me free And for gifts it offers exact no feet If true, I shall welcome this second love. / shall open my heart to its deans• mg rain, And secretly stifle regretful pain When l finally turn my head Front viewing the ashes of fiery love— The smoldering embers dead.
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