Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Assuming none the less that vocational training is the sole function of most American colleges, he hastily concludes that the best preparation for an active business life is frenzied outside activity in college. Granting that some few undergraduate organizations approximate the conditions found in actual business life, it is difficult to see how the usual ad-getting sweatshirt gathering competition shapes one for the executive chair of a large corporation. It is much easier to believe the figures of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company on the value of a sound background of collegiate study for success in the business...
Last week, in California, Miss Ellen celebrated her 92nd birthday. Many and sincere were her well wishers but none more sincere than the students and professors of Scripps College, which her money founded when she turned...
Easily classified were the guests of the educators and the butchers. Henry Ford was first of cheap motorcar makers; Thomas Alva Edison was first to perfect the phonograph, the incandescent lamp and many another U. S. industrial staple. In photography, none outranks Rochester's music-loving George Eastman. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis is 78, is dean of newspaper and magazine publishers. How long is their service to science and industry is indicated by the average of their ages-74. Younger are the two historic exponents of commercial aviation, youngest of great industries. Orville Wright, at 57, is seven years...
...American enterprise. All are, or have been, potent factors in the industrial development of the U. S. With the exception of Aviators Wright & Curtiss, all are 60 or over. With the exception of Steelman Schwab, who went to St. Francis College, and Tireman Firestone, who went to business college, none of the group progressed beyond a public high school education. Most of the eight have been powers in their particular fields, have now forged beyond their fields into larger industrial problems. The Ford plant in Dearborn is held the world's most exhaustive and interesting experiment in mechanistic production...
...Manhattan, last week, none asked him to explain his politics. But bankers asked him of the progress of the Finance Company of Great Britain and America, Ltd., which is the few-months old international child of a luncheon-party with Tycoon Albert Henry Wiggin, Chairman of the Board of the Chase National Bank (Manhattan...