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While peering into the future, Carnegie faculty men love to fire off scary prophecies. Knowledge will so outweigh experience in the computer age, says Psychologist Harold J. Leavitt, that young men might better remain in school and "stay away from the whole damn scene for 25 years." Leavitt envisions business careers lasting only 20 years, as against 40 now, and says that executives will avoid obsolescence only by going back to the university "one year in four...
Mark Collins Myers '64 has been awarded the first prize of $300 in Leavitt & Peirce's fourth annual advertising contest...
...Leavitt and Pierce and the Coop reported a slight drop in cigarette sales and a considerable rise in pipe and tobacco purchases. But the saleswoman in the Coop was skeptical. "Cigarettes will keep going down for a white--then sales will shoot right back up," she said. "That's what happened on the New York Stock Exchange...
...Peaceable Revolution. Freeman's bureaucratic beanstalk grew from a very small seed. Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, first head of the Patent Office, was keenly interested in agriculture, and in 1839 he managed to get from Congress an appropriation of $1,000 to distribute new plants and gather agricultural statistics. Agriculture remained a division of the Patent Office until 1862, when Abraham Lincoln signed a bill establishing a separate department under a Commissioner of Agriculture.* Lincoln said that Agriculture was "peculiarly the people's department, in which they feel more directly concerned than any other." Since about 60% of Americans...
...believe it's happened," said Stanley referring to Love's unexpected death. "It's a great loss to me," he added. The feeling is much the same at Newell Boat House, and it will be very difficult to replace him. One of the candidates to take over, Bill Leavitt '50, head coach at Rutgers, illustrates Love's valued service of 26 years. Leavitt, too, is a little man--a cox--taught by Love himself...