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...condition of ever-increasing change. That which was taught fifty years ago is today ludicrous. That which is being taught today as true, will tomorrow be exploded and superseded by something else. Nothing is certain. What the next generations will be required to know and think can not be foretold. The best equipment a student can have to face the future is not an enormous knowledge of facts, which are sure to change, but rather an ability to assimilate facts, to come to conclusions from handling them, an ability to think. And this should be the ultimate aim of education...
...large school of economic thought scoffed instalment buying in 1928, blamed it for the catastrophe of 1929, foretold its speedy annihilation. But no annihilation has come about; instalment selling has withstood Depression well. Although purchases of all goods, especially those which may be bought "on time," have dropped, and although the price per unit is less, the National Association of Credit Companies reports that the industry has shown surprising stability except for radio sets and mechanical refrigerators, both of which, however, have made steady gains. Four hundred and two automobile finance companies did a $547,000,000 business...
...last ten years, from reports of scouts stationed on street corners in 50 big U. S. cities he analyzes what most women will wear. He reports his findings to merchants, saves many from heading wrong. Last spring after his scouts reported on over one million women. Amos Parrish foretold the Empire trend...
...Hollywood proceeded to mould and stamp Miss Twelvetrees as a definite type. She was groomed and plumed, and came out a paradox. Her contact with the grim and the real was to be a result of her figure; just as her inherent fineness and final sublimation was to be foretold by the glow of spirituality that her slightly sloe-eyes could assume...
...bull market on which the country has ridden in "Republican prosperity" the past eight years is a commonplace. The break of the past week has been a debacle. Whether the prosperity is to continue, or is to turn into a period of relative depression is hardly to be foretold, but the greatest stock crisis in history can hardly be designated as a technical readjustment. Whether the decline in what admittedly was an inflated market was touched off by the hammering of bear fools that finally tapped a layer of stop loss orders, whether the some what uncertain business conditions that...