Word: developed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many companies are trying to develop these qualities and to give their specialists a broad philosophy of management by sending them back to school. There are now more than 20 "short courses" in management problems given by leading American colleges and the American Management Association, and the attendance is constantly growing. When the executives return to their desks, they keep learning in periodic conferences, where their suggested solutions to company problems often pay off. For example, at such conferences United Parcel Service worked out a method to cut time wasted in extra deliveries by as much as 23%. Whether...
...maintenance of expensive suburban children and station wagons does not go in for radical thought or action. From the first orientation week, freshmen learn the value of conformity. They dress in T shirts and zippered jackets, always wearing a required black tie and maroon beanie, and together they develop the cherished and much-vaunted Colgate spirit...
...faculty, according to one department director, makes periodic attempts to "develop a more studious atmosphere." But the Core system, which is the apple of Colgate's academic eye, and is like an intensive composite of Harvard's General Education program combined with the preceding Rules of Distribution precludes the picayune study that is the basis for intense scholarship Rather, most courses at Colgate are of the survey variety, aimed at a smattering of culture in many times and lands...
...Anticipating the probable requirements of an educated business man in a literate world, the Core courses prepare Colgate men for cocktail party chatter, arming them with a general knowledge of comprehensive fields. For instance, the catalogue lists Core 10, the literature course prescribed for Juniors, as seeking "primarily to develop in the student the intelligent enjoyment of literature...
Colgate, then, is a non-vocational business school. There, men prepare themselves for jobs by learning the thought process rather than concentrating on such mechanical skills as accounting. More important, by the social training of fraternity life, they develop a keen preception of the requirements for a happy life in the communities to which they will return. Delving into the sciences and the arts, Colgate men build up a fund of interests to serve them in their future lives...