Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each game having been won, by a decisive score. If Harvard wins this game, the last before the Intercollegiates they will have won the championship of the Commonwealth League. How ever, in the event of their losing, a triple tie will be declared, between the University team, the 101st Field Artillery, and the 110th Field Artillery. The three teams will then play again, in order to determine the winner of the tournament...
...considering business I want you to think just a moment of the field of human endeavor as a Graph with X and Y coordinates. The Y coordinates vertical represent different types of businesses with their various sub-divisions. The steel business, for example, is divided into smelting, mining, and refining, down to machine tool work, making structural shapes, and small metal parts. There are other businesses, smaller perhaps, with various types of products, but which are, nevertheless, separate as businesses...
...coordinates we can divide the jobs in most businesses into four or five different categories. There are those in the Production Field, which includes labor, foremanship, superintendency, and managership. Those in the Distribution Field, include selling, sales executive work, advertising in all of its phases, and marketing research. Those in the General Office and Accounting Field, include the keeping of records and handling of finance from book-keeper and office boy to treasurer or vice president in charge of finance. The Service Field, which we find in many organizations--which functions as a method of rendering assistance to other departments...
...considering these various fields of human endeavor, and methods of progress, we can consider, first of all, either the industries or the types of jobs in which a man may work, and we can consider for the moment the man as interested in some particular, field along either line, and that in any event a "castle's move" may, be possible as an outlook to future progress...
...appearance of Mr. Daly's series of articles on the phases of business is of particular importance now, Comparatively few of that host of Seniors who are inevitably going to enter some branch of the commercial field have had sufficient training to formulate any sound ideas on the subject. The cultural theories that see rightly a certain acquaintance with literature, art, music as highly desirable in producing that gentle abstraction, the complete man, generally trouble themselves not at all with the crass, sordid details that must crop up for every one without means, or desire to live in an ivory...