Word: expections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course we cannot hide our heads in the sand like that and expect to escape the imminent thunderstorm. Things are, unfortunately, happening in the world outside, and before we know it college students may begin to take a most indecorous interest in them--as perhaps they are already beginning to do. Nothing could be better calculated to forestall such an awareness of life on the part of undergraduates than the "contact with the members of cultured families" which Mr. Ehrensperger wisely recommends. By all means, Quincy Street before Ford Hall, the tea-wafer before the Bread of Life, the languid...
...fully as much with the business men as with the institutions. Unless the business men are willing to open up and furnish the real facts regarding their businesses, without of course having their used in any way to reveal the identity of the individual concerns, they cannot fairly expect the educational institutions to have the intimate knowledge of business affairs that is essential for thoroughly practical teaching. I can assure you that the cooperation of the wholesale grocery trade in our research work during the last five years has been of tremendous assistance to us in our teaching...
...should consider seriously the problem of lessening the severity of fluctuations in business in the future. Unless we learn the obvious lessons of the past eighteen months, two or three years hence we may find ourselves in exactly the same predicament as today. It is not reasonable to expect that we can eliminate all the ups and downs in business. Nevertheless the fluctuations in business conditions due to the faulty working of our business methods and the lack of foresight on the part of merchants and manufacturers can be corrected in part. We have not learned how to do this...
...therefore, the present-day workman chooses to strike his balance at eight hours, he is fully entitled to do so. But he must be content with the resulting return; he has no right to expect nine and ten hours' product for only, eight hours' work. This is what he all too frequently falls to see, but the fault is his and not that of the theory of wages. "The demand for the eight-hour day" says Taussig in his "Principles of Economics", is entitled to all sympathy and support", and the modern laborer is quite as adapted...
...Bussey Institution? Most questionnaires succeed in making the answerer feel ignorant, but ignorance of some things is no loss. When we are confronted, however, with questions that demonstrate how little we know of our own college, the matter strikes us in a different light. An American citizen is expected to have some acquaintance with the history and organization of his country; why not expect a reasonable knowledge of the University's past from a Harvard undergraduate...