Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is an artichoke, a chameleon? Some undergraduates there are who cannot tell; so Professor West asks, in the "Atlantic Monthly", "What do students know?" Professor Boas counters with, "What do teachers know?" When we observe what Thomas Edison demands of those who apply for positions, we ask ourselves if there be any wisdom on earth. What do we know, what does Thomas Edison know...
...with new forms of examinations. It gives one a sense of satisfaction, no doubt, to say off-hand "in what country orang-outangs live" and "where we get most of our sapphires", but it is impossible to believe that this is a test of ability to succeed in the Edison factory. What we want to know are those things that will help us live the better in whatever surroundings we find ourselves. We may have a sound critical judgment and ability to cope with difficult problems, yet appear complete idiots if examined under some of the so-called tests...
...these examiners are seeking to expose really dangerous ignorance, they are on the wrong track; if they are trying to tell the undergraduate to read more good books, and talk more about serious things, and feel more at home, therefore among men who, if they cannot work for Mr. Edison, are considered educated gentlemen, then they are doing a good work...
Arthur E. Kennelly was born at Bombay, educated in England and at Pittsburg and Harvard, served for a time as electrical assistant to Thomas A. Edison, became professor of electrical engineering at the University in 1902, and is also director of electrical research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a past president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and of the Institute of Radio Engineers in New York. He expects to sail for France in June
...American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers have extended an invitation to all Engineering students to join them in an excursion to the L Street Power Station of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company this afternoon. This is a turbo-generator plant of modern design, and includes two of the latest type of 30,000 K.V.A. Turbo-Units. It is expected that one of them will be opened for inspection. The station is on L sereet and Summer Street Extension and may be reached by street car from the South Station...