Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Economics 18, Professor Cole's course on "Principles of Accounting," an experiment is being made in the application of something like laboratory methods. Each student taking the course in the spring is required to make a report on the business of a corporation, on the basis of printed accounts which are put before him. Hereafter the investigation and the framing of the report will be done as a continuous piece of work in a single room where all the materials will be gathered, and under strict supervision as to the time employed. Pierce 307 is reserved for the work...
...China, asking, in the name of humanity and charity, assistance for those 600,000 families (which means nearly 3,000,000 people) who are starving in the present famine there. The Chinese themselves are doing all they can, but that is not much, for the revolution has made anything like sufficient provision impossible. Their chief reliance is therefore on the generosity of England and America, and $5,000,000 are needed...
...system of costs has been is stituted by which each of thirteen departments keeps its own accounts the sum total makes up the business of the whole society. Each departments has its management and is run just like a small store. This system was found be more efficient than...
...accept as professors only men of real note. Harvard University was the first in America to take up applied science. It had the first professor of engineering. Today, beyond question, especially as exponents of the professional side of Applied Science, the staff is extraordinarily strong. The Engineering School, like the Law School and the Medical School, is almost universally regarded as standing extremely high...
...familiar type in our midst is the case-hardened gambler, the grimly smiling sport-lover who courts Dame Fortune all he can, the man who confesses with a devilish expression that he "likes to take a sporting chance". He need no longer go in town for the tense mental exhilaration of matching nickels to see who shall pay the fares, for within the six or seven walls of the maligned Hemenway Gymnasium is a bowling alley, where he will find both physical exertion and the most delightfully fickle uncertainty. The alley resembles a relief map of the state of Nevada...