Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Several definite and potent factors account for this difference and indicate clearly why the private school man captures the athletic prizes and the public school graduate wins the scholastic honors. In the first place, as a general thing only the picked men who have won intellectual distinction in the public schools continue their education into advanced fields; on the other hand, practically all private school students enter college. Also, it is to be noted that a large number of the public school men in the honor lists receive a stipendiary scholarship, a consideration all too potent in the competition...
...Yale football schedule for 1913 includes games with two new opponents, Lehigh and the University of Maine. The West Point game has been dropped on account of the effects of so hard a trip on the players. The Syracuse game has also been omitted. The complete schedule is as follows...
...members of the Faculty who have been granted leave of absence for the first half-year only, will return, notably, Professors G. P. Baker '87, E. Channing" '78, J. H. Ropes '89, and R. DeC. Ward '89. In addition, Dr. A. N. Holcombe '06, who has been absent on account of ill-health, expects to resume his duties after the mid-years. Regular sabbatical leave for the second half of this year has been granted to Professors A. B. Hart and W. B. Munro, and to Dean Haskins. The latter recently received the award of the Woodbury Lowery Fellowship which...
...John P. Crosadale, of Philadelphia, next, under the title "Patents for Invention," gives an interesting account of some principles of patent law--a topic to which engineers as well as the public at large are likely soon to be giving the greater attention it deserves...
...next article is "The Growing Science of Efficiency," by Holbrook F. J. Porter, reprinted from "Business America," October number. He gives a readable account of the meaning, scope, and progress of a subject now justly arousing great interest. Like the general run of such writers and speakers, he seems entirely oblivious of the fact that the science of efficiency has a field of application in the field of what the economists call the distribution of wealth, as well as in the production of wealth. We can already produce far more efficiently--poorly as we may do it still--than...