Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Harvey Robinson, himself a famed knowledge-humanizer, significantly observes that "the word 'mind' was originally a verb, not a noun." That is, actions are older than words. Sunlight as curative, one finds elsewhere, has been used by Chinese, Egyptians, South American Indians...
...always inclined, to the experimental in education, she has ever found the old ways better in the fundamental principles. The University of Chicago, founded upon Western ideas, is still an overgrown child, conscious of its own physical strength but lacking in the historical background, traditions, and heritage of the older American schools...
...business, formal or informal apprenticeship, was breaking down; the rule of thumb was giving way to instruments of precision and the intelligence to handle them. The majority of college graduates, even without any specialized education, were seeking business careers, where only a generation ago they were entering the older professions. There was dawning for business--and those who stood highest saw it--the day of systematized teaching of business principles and practice, just as earlier the same experience had come to accounting, the first business profession, to engineers, lawyers, doctors and clergymen. And if knowledge is to be systematized...
From the outset, therefore, we had no doubts as to the purpose and possibility of this professional school. It should seek to train business executives and be satisfied with nothing less. Otherwise it forfeits its right to stand on the same level with the older professional schools. Its graduates must of course, start in the lower ranks and many may never reach the highest commands. Over their heads will often pass, though perhaps less frequently in the future, gritty, gifted men from the lowest ranks. A progressive society must follow Napoleon's maxim of "careers open to talent." But accumulating...
...science of management: here is the real center of business. This is the thing which business men of the older fashion meant when they said executives could not be trained outside of business. Now they are realizing how little business itself knows of this delicate and difficult matter. It applies not only to the factory but to all activities of business; it deals not merely with machines and methods, but with all the ordered work of human beings. It has still to develop its wider applications; it has yet to make of the factory nomerely a mechanizing evil necessary...