Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This problem the state universities face. And, if the numbers that attend them, the tendency to enlarge them, and the influence they have in educational experimentation all be taken into account, the fortunes of education in America are inextricably bound up with their methods. Three factors continues Mr. James, are stripping them of their cultural character. The transference, in some places, of the last two years of the normal four year course to graduate work, leaves only two years for more general study. The attempts of professional departments to see that students entering their courses have had proper previous training...
Spinks Pasha will continue to draw a salary and expense account of $60,000 per year from the Egyptian Treasury. He is nominally employed by fat King Fuad, in that monarch's interest. Actually his duties are to see that the Egyptian Army does not become potent...
General Summerall gave a detailed account of the engagement in which McKinlock lost his life. At the height of the German advance in the spring of 1918 Marshal Foch began to gather his forces for a counter advance. The first division of Americans was with the tenth French army which was in the van of the new forces thrown in the way of the victorious enemy. McKinlock was with the first division as a brigade staff officer and was scouting the German lines on intelligence duty when he fell. His death did not come, however, until he had rendered important...
...privilege of adopting or rejecting this respite has been left to the several departments; on that account some heads are seeking advice from their present classes as to whether or not the system seems to them, having taken the course--or at least being in at the death, advisable in the particular instance. Now there is nothing more difficult to obtain than helpful and intelligent criticism from those who are at the moment enmeshed in their own personal problems. Nevertheless students who have genuinely constructive opinions concerning their courses and who possess Platonic idealism which allows them to look upon...
...science of business is, like the moving picture, in its infancy; that all is being taught that has been formulated into anything like teaching--that the rest will come and until then one must be content with the rudiments. This is possibly true but such an explanation does not account for the fact that the requirements for a Business School degree are to be met in only two years time. If the second year, which in strict proportion should be as valuable as the first and which in theory should be even more so, is only a repetition...