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Those who have enjoyed the quickening effect of tutorial instruction as administered by Ralph Monroe Eaton are able to comprehend the intentions of the founders of the House Plan. The large company of students who are indebted to him bear testimony to the excellence of a system which fosters such instruction as he gave...
...theory, of business organization and business theory; but it is no concern of the university to train in a technical sense either politicians or business men. The university will make its outstanding contribution to human thought and, in the long run, to human society if it assists men to comprehend. And this is precisely what university schools of business...
...educational principles were few but sound. A graduate school should place its emphasis on securing the finest possible brains for its faculty and student body: buildings and facilities should be secondary. An atmosphere of serious love of study should characterize the surroundings. Finally, men should be taught to comprehend broad, general principles, and not be crammed with technical routine...
Something--either a desire for monumental self-glorification or a failure to comprehend the full scope of university needs--makes philanthropists give magnificent edifices at times when institutions can best employ funds in other, less ostentatious ways. For increase in the general operating funds universities must look chiefly to small donors, though occasionally their contribution is overshadowed by large unrestricted gifts. Eventually, we hope, more men of great wealth will spend less lavishly and more wisely. In the meanwhile small contributors need not be abashed or deterred by external signs of wealth; their money in class endowment and alumni funds...
...Rudolph Spreckels, nor were his troubles those of new competition which befell Col. Carrington's Hudson River Navigation Corp. His fight was the fight of the old-school businessman. To visualize Long-Bell one must think of the 14-story R. A. Long Building in Kansas City, must comprehend that on its 379,000 acres of land there were about 9,075,000,000 ft. of saleable timber, yellow pine in Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, hard wood in Mississippi, Douglas Fir in Washington, white pine in California. The $108,000,000 assets further include thousands of acres of farm land...