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...opening the series of addresses arranged by the Committee on the Choice of Vocations it is peculiarly fitting that Mr. Wickersham should discuss public service as a career. The haphazard injection of butcher, baker, and candlestick maker into public life has resulted largely in that state of affairs which needs only the description of "American politics." The contrast with the English system in which training for a public career begins at Eton and continues at Cambridge has been made too often to be effective, but it points decisively to a remedy for that malady of corruption which has broken...
...other important point in the new system is the chronological arrangement in which the literature courses are to be arranged, instead of the haphazard potpourri which they represent at present. By guaranteeing that no important period of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the present will be neglected, the faculty of the department makes possible a much more nearly perfect grasp of the development of literature, and incidentally guides the student toward the natural preparation for English divisionals. If this same system could be carried over to other departments, notably that of History, another perceptible advance would be achieved...
Thus, apparently, Tokyo is to rise once more as it was-a fire-exposed city with haphazard streets and multitudinous ramshackle buildings...
...said, the course of business is not purely fortuitous or haphazard. By studing the price movements in the United States for the past 20 years, an index of trade for the United States has been obtained. This chart reveals a well defined ebb and flow of prosperity and depression. First comes a period of business depression, then a recovery; this is followed by a period of prosperity followed by financial strain, which ultimately brings about a financial crisis. These five phases, each leading into the other, are known as the business cycle...
...haphazard methods of business belong to the prehistocic ages of five years ago when we were in the business wilderness," next decared Mr. Howard Coonley '98, president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and of the Walworth Manufacturing Company. He said that since he had discovered that the sales of the Walworth Company followed almost precisely the sales graphs prepared by the Harvard Economic Service, his company had been able to discard the old uncertain method of irregular production. By following the Harvard forecast, they had been able to estimate sales for each phase of the business cycle, and plan...