Word: preceptions
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...hard work, has devoted himself particularly to economic problems. One of his schemes made headlines fortnight ago when he proposed that, to stimulate business, all employers give their employes a week's pay in advance on condition that it all be spent the first week. Suiting example to precept he gave his own employes a week's advance to be repaid without interest in 20 equal instalments out of their pay (which he at the same time increased...
...teachings than for his handsome beard-which has never been shaved, which once, on shipboard, caused him to be mistaken for a Maharaja. No mere academician is he. Ten or 15 years ago he began buying up small New England utility companies that were not doing too well. Turning precept to example, he put them on a profitable basis. While Insull interests and New England Power Co. were struggling for control of New England utilities, he more than held his own, adding to his reputation in business as well as pedagogy. He has heartily condemned the "managed industry" policy...
High-spiring family tradition closed out all but a few directions for Henry Adams' ambitious nose. By ancestral precept and example a public career was indicated. But no Adams was a vote-beseecher: politics was closed. No Adams kept shop: business was out. As his father's secretary in London Henry developed a taste for high (especially English) government society and would have welcomed a diplomatic post; but he was never offered one. Hoping to become a political power through the Press, he wrote for the North American Review and as Washington correspondent for The Nation; but when...
...several years (he put it in cans), is the financial brains of the organization. He is smallish, neat, curly-mustached, rides to hounds with the Spring Valley Harriers near his home at Convent, N. J. But Mrs. MacDougall is still the decorative and culinary genius of the business. Her precept: "Remember that cleanliness is next to godliness and invest everything that you use in connection with coffee with a godlike cleanliness...
...printed resume of his course for distribution among the students taking it. At that time we reviewed the lecture situation at Princeton and sought to establish the desirability of such a reform as that initiated by Professor Vaughan. It was our contention that the ideal of the Princeton lecture-precept system was to develop the student's faculty of interpreting and associating the basic text-book data of a course, that this ideal was not being subserved under present conditions, when in many cases lectures are merely concentrated doses of factual information, and that in consequence a remedy should...