Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teachers who were called upon to find the answer to the demand of business, to give classroom expression to vague aspirations, the first and, indeed, the abiding question was. What is essential to be taught, and how can it be taught? Among the confusing array of business activities which must somehow be constrained within courses of instruction, where should emphasis be laid? If business itself answers "Marketing," or "Factory Production," or, if more inclusively, it answers "Management," and there should be no academic equipment in these fields, what should be done? What shifts and devices, what combinations of planning...
...produce competent officers of high professional spirit. I went on to say that even what he called "mere technical knowledge" goes a long way in forming successful character. It is basic for judgment; it enhances courage by dispelling baseless fears. If you will define and analyze "gumption," you will find that knowledge and training play their part in it. Indeed, the honest search for knowledge is a cardinal virtue and a builder of character. One of the most constructive minds I know in business calls it the First Commandment...
...large industrial concern in this country would use in a like undertaking," said Mr. Austin, slim, alert, decisive. "It has sent out its engineers to make a survey of the latest and best methods of doing what the country wants done. "Following this research the job was to find an organization that could do the work. Evidently the American idea of doing big things in a big way appealed to the Soviet representatives. The job has come to an American concern. "However, it did not come overnight. We have been working more than eight months on this proposition." From bustling...
...subsided, interest in racial superiorities continues. National Research Council's Otto Klineberg found slight differences in the intelligence ratings of German, French and Italian children (Nordics, Alpines, Mediterraneans). City children of the three types were smarter than the corresponding country children. Nor did Vanderbilt University's Lyle Hicks Lanier find sharp differences between Negro and white children, or New Zealand's I. L. G. Suther- land between primitive (Maori) and civilized adults...
Last month, along with 48 other selected "bright boys," one Charles H. Brunissen of West Redding, Conn., went to West Orange, N. J., and answered the long lists of questions whereby Thomas Alva Edison, aided by the U. S. press, sought to find the most eligible young man in the U. S. to become his understudy (TIME, Aug. 12). After answering Mr. Edison's questions, Charles Brunissen said he thought many of them were "senseless, idiotic." Then he learned that though he had not won the contest, with its prize of a four-year scholarship at Massachusetts Institute...