Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year, when psychological tests were blossoming on every hand, most of us were inclined to scoff, Columbia adopted them for entering students, and other colleges also were reported to look on them with favor. But still we were sceptical. Then Mr. Edison's questionnarie and a hundred other such rigamaroles seemed to reduce the whole matter to an absurdity...
...college graduate could be expected to supply information on all subjects. And the hapless graduate has been trying to live up to expectations ever since. Perhaps he may have seemed a trifie too persistent in his efforts, but a consideration of the obstacles to be overcome (cf. Thomas Edison and others) should persuade us to be lenient in our judgements. The whole thing is so obviously unfair; there should be a set of rules established. Running graduates through the gauntlet is becoming a most alarmingly "catch-as-catch-can" sport, or, in another metaphor, a case...
...Walter Maxwell, vice-preeident of the Thomas A. Edison Company, will address all sroups of the Business School Club at 7.30 o'clock this evening in the Living Room of the Union. Mr. Maxwell will speak on "Sales Problems of the Thomas A. Edison Company...
Theodore Roosevelt advocated the strenuous life and Thomas Edison says that four hours' sleep is enough, but we have a right to our own opinion upon the subject. If living a strenuous life means being continually ill it would be better to settle down to a reasonable gait and enjoy life more and longer. Perhaps we would then need fewer doctors. --University of Washington Daily...
...active producers in the marts of the business world, the rest of us are apt to watch them with a feeling of envy. Lower-classmen, Freshmen especially, look ahead two or three more years of college, and wonder just how much it will mean to them. The possibility that Edison may be right occurs to them perhaps. At any rate there is a great deal of talk about "not coming back." "Spring fever becomes an epidemic...