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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plant. Once at work, "Dean, the graduate in question, showed a flash of real brilliancy in analyzing the operations of two departments. The unfortunate factor was that in getting his data Dean antagonized every man he met. His sense of 'superiority,' his inability to handle other men or to mix with them, his continual complaints, oral and written, to his immediate superior and to the head of the business; all made him about as popular as a thunder storm at a picnic. His routine reports, the business analyses he was employed to make, were clear and sound, but each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUPERIORITY. | 12/12/1919 | See Source »

...When the theorists mix in, they usually make a mess of it." This sentence is drawn from a booklet on "College-Made Utopias and Labor Unrest," which Dorr A. Felt, president of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association, has been impelled to write...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 11/8/1919 | See Source »

Hitherto, American Rhodes scholars were not a great success at Oxford. They failed to mix with the English, and seldom won the higher honors in scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RHODES SCHOLARS OLD AND NEW. | 11/4/1919 | See Source »

...coating of snow and ice will keep the terrible dust down; the monotany of swamp-oak will be broken by this time by the newly-laid out drill grounds and cantonments. To the New Englander it will be an education to live away from his native hearth,--to mix with people who did not cross on the Mayflower. Yaphank has been greatly over-estimated as a jumping off place for the Lower World. It is not a Palm Beach, but it is two hours nearer to New York than that far-famed winter resort and the lure of the Metropolis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YAPHANK. | 10/23/1917 | See Source »

...neutrality" league also claims that it and the R. O. T. C. should work together. It does not take into account that oil and water will not mix, and that the spirit prompting the Union is the direct antithesis of that prompting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Neutrality Union an Anachronism. | 2/23/1917 | See Source »

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