Word: adaptive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another method which the Business School is using to help the men adapt themselves to the school's methods is that of giving a series of orientation lectures covering the aims of the school and its methods. An effort has been made to make these lectures a basis for a complete understanding by the student of the school; what it is trying to do; what it is not trying to do; and the reasons for the choice of the particular methods used. In this way the school hopes to help the students who come from a large number of colleges...
Happily the sins of our law are venial. Time is required for it to adapt itself to the new conditions of the 20th century. In regard to corporations, it has made rapid strides. But in regard to the poor man, justice is sluggish. The state needs trained, ingenious lawyers; but when it gets them with the sacrifice of lawyers with human understanding and a layman's common sense, there is no gain. Perhaps no better expenditure could be made by the state than to attract with large salaries the right kind of legally trained men to sit as judges...
Happily the sins of our law are venial. Time is required for it to adapt itself to the new conditions of the twentieth century. In regard to corporations, it has made rapid strides. In regard to the poor man, justice is sluggish. The state needs trained, ingenious lawyers; but when it gets them by the sacrifice of lawyers with human understanding and a layman's common sense, there is no gain. Perhaps no better expenditure could be made by the state than to attract with large salaries the right kind of legally trained men to sit as judges...
Phillips Brooks House has received from the Trustees of the Canton Christian College a call for teachers, temporary and permanent, for teaching in China. Instructors must possess a sound collegiate training, influence over boys and girls open to Christian teaching, interest in their social life and athletics, willingness to adapt themselves to new conditions, and energy for 20 hours' classroom work per week. Salary includes all travel and living expenses. Further information may be obtained from the Graduate Secretary, Phillips Brooks House...
...must cope with the problems of the future, and the college training teaches him to expect and to meet new situations. He is, moreover, better prepared for leadership than those who have not gone to college. This was clearly brought out by the ability of college men to adapt themselves to the duties of officers in the war. And, finally, a general education makes a man more stimulating and helpful in his friendship and better able to give advice in the light of a true perspective...