Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edison's "questionnaires" for the searching of the minds of his own prospective employees are his own business, and it is to be assumed that experience has taught him wisdom in the means of testing the general intelligence of applicants for positions in his establishment. In this age, "intelligence" frequently means information, and Mr. Edison's latest list of questions, as published, certainly constitutes a good test of general information, and Mr. Edison's latest list of questions, as published, certainly constitutes a good test of general information and keenness of sense. The questions are of course, far from being...
...Hall into comfortable, suites-after the manner of Grays. No method has as yet been suggested for conducting laboratory courses on a wireless basis but the toilers within the noisome halls of Boylston still live in hope. University Extension will soon be a mere matter of Kilowatts, and the Edison Light Company is destined shortly to become the educational centre of the community. As for the Summer School; but then, even the sight of pretty "coeds" disporting themselves on the shady paths in front of Holworthy will hardly turn the determined undergraduate from his purpose. The Summer School must...
...illogical opponent will hesitate to say that such clarity is universal. And the last point, that of knowing how to get the facts, is not open to controversy; this knowledge, and the faculty of being a walking encyclopedia, have been the opponents in the recent discussion of Mr. Edison's questionnaires. Ability to remember a large mass of unrelated facts, which Mr. Edison regards as important, is not so valuable as knowing where such facts...
...Princeton Freshman in the New York Times and the rect of us who have remained confounded in our ignorance these many years, can feel comforted. Mr. Edison and his fellows may do their worst; there will still be some who will realize that the possession of a large fund of information does not imply intelligence...
...easy to find men with freak memories who in a few days could be ready to answer all the questions propounded by Mr. Edison and answer them accurately. The born chess player can carny in his mind the positions of all the pieces in a dozen or more games; but he would have considerable trouble filling out an income tax blank...