Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...degree of Bachelor of Arts, now being seriously considered by the Yale Corporation, again brings up the whole mooted question of the value of the classics as essentials. For every lover of Euripedes or Aeschylus who rises to point out the benefit of a classical foundation, there is an Edison or a Henry Ford to declare that dead languages have no part in the world of today; and for every Edison questionnaire published there is an interview with a business man of Dayton, Ohio, who emphasizes the importance of a classical background to serve as a setting into which...
...these are not enough; the demand is increasing and to satisfy it the populace must choose their idols. One palladium of morality recently elected as the greatest man of all time our friend and counsellor, Thomas Edison. Of greater Harvard interest are his runners-up; Roosevelt, Shakespeare, and Longfellow. After them in the order named, come the others of the first ten: King Alfred, Tennyson, Hoover, Dickens, Lloyd George, and Andrew D. Volstead. A notable collection truly! But where are Lincoln, Washington, Napoleon, Harding, and a few others? No matter, all deficiences are made up by the two Harvard...
...Edison has expressed in no uncertain terms his opinion of the college man in overalls; any ward "boss" will be equally frank abut the college man in politics, and both are in large measure justifies. The men with A and B minds who are content to slide comfortably through college with a "gentleman's mark", C Taking interest in their activities their athletics and nothing else, are the same men who will be equally content twenty years from now to slouch comfortably at roller-top desks behind six-inch cigars...
...Thomas A. Edison's view that college graduates are too finicky--they want white-collar jobs and don't care for the sweat and the muck that are not dissociable with some kinds of hard work. Clerical employment appears congenial to them; the grind and the grief of mechanical engineering does not. At the bottom of Mr. Edison's gravamen against the collegian is his disinclination to work. He says a man is set for life at twenty-one, and if he is a dullard then, a dullard he will remain to the end of his days...
...given a bias to civilization was handed him on a tray. He had to go after what he got, and go after it hard, and keep it up after other men got cold feet and cried quits and lay down on the job. A word of wisdom from Edison comes with the full weight of his immense achievement behind it. Edison evolved and devised not by his incandescent intellectual brilliancy merely. He labored prodigiously; he "delivered the goods": he has served pre-eminently his race; he is entitled to talk and to be heard. --Philadelphia Ledger...