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...modern closed shop is an efficient shop. The restrictions on apprenticeship of former times were due to a necessity for maintaining a high quality of output. With modern introduction of machinery, these restrictions are rapidly disappearing. The charge that closed shop men "slack" on the job can be applied to all labor. The open shop drive system does more to injure industrial efficiency than...
...bottom ascends rung by rung. The climb is long, laborious, and slow. The educated American, ever impatient of results, is not temperamentally equipped for the task, and easily deviates into fields where his ability will reap him a more speedy and direct compensation. On the other hand, the political apprenticeship of the Englishman is of short duration. He serves first in the borough council, and immediately afterwards is eligible to the House of Commons. There are no tedious waits or petty impedimenta. Yet another advantage is that the M.P. does not need to be a resident of the borough electing...
...making the industrial experience count for all it can is a set of comprehensive questionnaires or syllabi which are compiled for the purpose of guiding a cooperative student in observing details at the shop and of helping him to learn all he possibly can during the short period of apprenticeship...
...business and few professions offer as broad a commercial education as the exporting business. For the successful exporter must be familiar not only with the mechanism of international trade, but also with the industries whose goods he exports and with the general financial situation. He who has served an apprenticeship with an exporting house will find that he has had a training which will make him an asset to any business...
...profession. It is worthy of note that CRIMSON editors (at least after they have made the board) sometimes attend lectures; that they are undergraduates; and that they have not long here below in this college world. When the CRIMSON editor has worked through the grades of his apprenticeship and reaches the presidency of the paper, he has one short half-year of life and then passes on to make way for a successor; his skill is necessarily gained late. These are reasons why most undergraduate publications have only streaks of success and long waste spaces of desolation and boredom...