A look back at 100 years of the Missouri Miner, collegiate newspaper of the soon to be Missouri University of Science and Technology.
"The Best Thing At MSM"
Such was the Missouri Miner called by James L. Head, first Editor-in-Chief of the Missouri Miner as he wrote to the Miner staff from his job at Braden Copper Company, in Rancagua, Chili, South America, five years after his tenure on the paper. Head felt it necessary to write to the fledgling paper relating its origins to a staff who for the most part was not around to witness its birth pangs. While the support of students and faculty largely contribute to the paper's success, too much credit can not be given to the individuals who started this endeavor, leading it to "earn a place among the permanent institutions of M.S.M."
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