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What use is to be made of the Centennial Endowment Fund? Is it to be used to build more dormitories--or is it to be used to equip to better advantage the University as it is? Those who have given freely to the Fund have done so because they believed in the wisdom and the vision of those directing it. Let them not fail in their duty...
...Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, is to give a series of talks to second-year men in the school on "The Individual's Approach to Business," the first of which will be this morning at 10 o'clock in Lawrence A. The talks are designed to equip men in the School better in those fields in which it has been shown that graduates of the School are some-what deficient,--namely; in the knowledge of how to obtain a job, and in estimating the men about them...
...that we are on the wrong track in education, but that we have gone forward too hastily. Mr. Butler's protest is valid not against the principle but against its excess. Elsewhere on this page we print an account of a new system of examinations at Harvard designed to equip the student for the fullest use of his faculties in the interpretation of what he has learned. This is not a reaction from the generous elective system introduced at Harvard twenty years ago. It is intended rather as a corrective to that system of free choice. Up on Morningside, President...
...during this period of personal probation, and since his object is to get promoted out of routine work into a position of executive or administrative responsibility, we spend our time in the School giving him the breadth of training needed to qualify him for promotion. We aim to equip our men so that they can keep out of narrow business pockets and make themselves broadly useful, but at the same time we seek thoroughness of training by insisting on some field of concentration leading to a business career...
...third place, I propose a training period, at the expense of the Government, and to be given at one or more of our larger universities, by means in which aspirants for the diplomatic or consular service may receive an intensive training of two or three years which should adequately equip them for their duties. Diplomacy and consular work both involve difficult, technical, and important duties. The men who now enter the service are usually entirely untrained and unequipped. They have to be "broken in." Much greater initial efficiency will result if this is done by trained educators than if they...