"The need has long been evident -the need of the hotel and restaurant industry for a more active market for the exchange of ideas; the need for a higher rostrum from which to reach a greater multitude of workers and supervisors, and managers, and employees; the need f or a wider sounding board to echo throughout the world the thoughts of t,he industry's ablest operators and teachers; a broader stage upon which to exhibit the progress and advancements in technical knowledge; a larger blackboard on which to chalk the outlines of future progress... " -H. B. Meek, first dean of Cornell's School of Hotel Administration and founder of I'he Quarterly, writing in the first issue of The Quarterly.