Word: done
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Many of the larger corporations who train college men for positions of trust require not only that the man measure up to certain requirements of scholarship but that he also should have done something in the extra-classroom life of his college. This insures that the man will not be alone a man of books but that he will have a knowledge of other men as well...
...applies for admittance to the training camps, and who fulfills the qualifications set down by the War Department, will be sent to the schools. The names of all applicants will be passed upon by the Tactical Staff and other academic authorities, and only if the man in question has done work up to the desired standard during his course will he be recommended...
...members of Reserve Officers' Training Corps units authorized to attend such camps, who have not already done so, will be required in advance to agree in writing in accordance with the requirements of paragraph 46, General Orders No. 49, War Department, 1916, to attend such camps; and also to accept at the option of the Government such transportation as the Government may provide, or mileage at the rate of three and one-half cent per mile at the colleges, schools or homes to such camp as they may be directed to attend, and mileage at the rate of three...
...certain overemphasis that has tended to make us regard somewhat cynically efficiency experts in general, the need for them in all matters pertaining to labor is becoming increasingly apparent. While the selling of material commodities has become organized to the highest point, the selling of labor has been done for the most part in a completely haphazard manner. Trade unions have had some effect; private and semi-public labor exchanges have helped towards efficiency, but they have in general signally failed to organize the labor market even in the skilled trades, and have completely passed by the great mass...
...spend your money even with the belief that by putting it into the channels of trade others into whose hands it comes will lend it to the Government, you will have done something the patriotism of which may be very questionable...