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¶ Colleges should not "devote time and energy to elementary drill . . . The secondary schools, both public and private, could and should be responsible for the 'stage of discipline' in the fundamentals . . . The pendulum has swung too far in some quarters against the older idea (abused as it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Why Is College Dull? | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

It was partly because Conant felt someone should devote more time to tending the budget and because he thought the same person should manage the sundry scattered libraries, research institutions, and museums, that he appointed Buck to the dual post of Provost to the University and Dean of the Faculty...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Buck Responsible For Major College Changes | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

"Scholars who devote themselves exclusively to what they specialize in have good educations in their particular fields, but they will be unable to form ideas in other areas", he has said, "and the General Education program is intended to enable students to integrate and understand the many things in a...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Buck Responsible For Major College Changes | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

"Scholars who devote themselves exclusively to what they specialize in have good educations in their particular fields, but they will be unable to form ideas in other areas," Buck observes. "The General Education program is intended to enable students to integrate and understand the many things in democratic society."

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Provost Buck: Consistent Freedom | 1/8/1953 | See Source »

The other philosophy is that there are no static frontiers for business. To keep it ever expanding, a corporation needs the domination of a man like Avery Bullard, who is willing to devote his life to the corporation. In the end, the new president of the Tredway Corp. is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: What Makes Tycoons Tick | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

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