Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...training for the transition from college to business had been devised. Yet this transition is unquestionably more difficult than the similar transition from the technical school to the engineering positions. In the ministry, the law, and the medicine, experience has proved that the shortest and most effctive way to absorb the fundamental facts, principles, and standards of the particular profession and to prepare for its practice is in a good school. The busy practitioner of any profession has neither the time, the specialized training, nor the equipment for the systematic instruction of beginners. This is particularly true of business...
...other faculties include so many teachers of eminence. There is now at the University an Engineering School where young men have the opportunity to obtain technical training of the highest order, and at the same time to participate in the life and activity of the University and absorb its traditions and ideals...
...abused in a manner that is as original as it is obnoxious. A group of students indulge in assembly of an evening around one of the tables, and instead of utilizing the sacred quiet unobtainable in most dormitories for composing eleventh-hour masterpieces in History, or heroically attempting to absorb three weeks' worth of Fine Arts in three hours, they make their books and papers a mask for a very congenial conversational society. By means of argument and repartee, now subdued and earnest, now noisy and hilarious, they succeed only too well in preventing their neighbors from any sort...