Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rule, based on the above reasoning, the goal from touchdown has proved rather unsatisfactory. Games have been lost through a miscue by a nervous kicker or holder of the ball, and the rest of the team has had to see their efforts at team work successful at reaching the correct goal in view--the touchdown--nullified by one individual's failure to kick a tying or winning goal. That the kicking of the goal is quite inconsistent with the team play that is the essence of football, is in no way better shown than by the action of the Williams...
Whether the reason assigned for our failure in minor sports is correct or not, the fact remains that we do not take much interest in them. Yale has consistently beaten us in swimming, wrestling, and in the gym meets. These are all good sports; they are all healthful and interesting. Is there any reason why we cannot be successful in squash, basketball, fencing, as we are successful in football, hockey, crew and baseball...
...editorial which appeared in these columns Wednesday, in attempted refutation of the communication also printed on that day, presents an admirable example of persuasive argument to English A students. The author is most surprisingly correct when he says, "Meeting other men, knowing them, and their ideals, making life-long friends, are truly as important as "booklearning." But if freshmen, who were known to be of necessity working over the evening dinner hour, were allowed compensation for the meals they missed, how much of the much-vaunted fraternizing would be lost? In Smith dining hall there are four long tables...
...handling human relations, and the capacity to make decisions. Everything in business except the routine repetitive work, including even the methods by which this routine work is accomplished, may be reduced to a succession of executive problems requiring discretion for their decision. The business man has to reach correct decisions with reference to these problems often from insufficient premises. The job of the Business School is to give a training which develops this capacity. It is not enough to lay down dogmatically the rules of the game because new facts have an awkward way in business of upsetting...
Many years ago in a course in Finance given at Harvard College, Professor Dunbar remarked that there was in his opinion only one correct rule of finance and that was, and is, to do the best thing you can under the circumstances. This rule is applicable to all business relations, and while it in no way lessens the importance of a proper background of fact and theory, it correctly throws the emphasis on the necessity of deciding each current problem with reference to its own surroundings. The Business School training is therefore directed toward developing this capacity for the decision...