Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stated in the same magazine last summer that good business men avoid college graduates until they have had time to have foolish ideals and ideas knocked from their heads. And this article does not blame the college for the fools that sometimes graduate from it. Mr. Draper, the author of the recent article, has taken the trouble to get actual facts from a number of prominent industrial executives. This is more than most critics of the college have done; and the result is that his conclusions differ from most of theirs. He says that "the consensus of opinion...
...subject has not been definitely announced but will very probably deal with some phase of the negro problem. Mr. Washington who is now principal of the Tuskegee Institute has made a careful study of the intellectual and moral qualities of the American negro, and his standing as an authority on questions pertaining to the education and elevation of the black race is universaly respected. He is the author of several treatises on the subject among which are "The Future of the American Negro" and "Up from Slavery...
...then we learn from the Chicago Examiner that Harvard men, to save laundry bills, are wearing black accordeon-plaited dress shirts and black stocks. They will go several rounds, while their white cousins are good for but one dance or dinner. The author of this story is wasting the ingenuity of a great investor...
...this: "They offer vividness, interest, lightness of touch, superficial interest; What perverse tenth muse broods over them, then, that they result only in stupidity, dullness, vanity, and vexation of spirit?" Can a vivid and interesting book be at the same time stupid and dull? Yet the article shows the author an acute observer of literary matters, with a pronounced taste of his own. His chief fault is an excessive eagerness to appear grown up and sophisticated. He is grown-up enough to afford to be simple, if he would only believe it. Let him reserve mere cleverness for such amusing...
...David A Wells Prize for 1913-14 was awarded to Eliot Jones, A.M. '08, Instructor in Economics in the University, for his dissertation on "The Investigation of the Anthracite Coal Industry." The prize consists of $500, to be awarded to the author of the best thesis, embodying the results of original investigation, on a subject within the field of Economics. Competition is open to members of the Senior class in Harvard College and also to any graduate of any department of the University of not more than three year's standing...