Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formulating the new plan of instruction the Faculty has been guided by the experience of other institutions where supervised part-time work in industries is in successful operation. The industrial work is in charge of a director, who is a product of the system. Each student, while doing work in the factory, is required to do weekly reports on the work carried on and is kept in close touch with his class-room instructors...
...have written this rather attractive sestina "just for a handful of silver" by way of prize, as to have let bad grammar and worse sentiment appear as the product of one's muse. Among the smaller poems in the June number appear such lines as these...
...Times of Sunday, May 9, there appeared an article purporting to quote Dr. Charles Eliot on the subject of West Point and its graduated product. Assuming that Dr. Eliot was quoted correctly, I wish to take exception to his statements--statements minimizing the value of the Military Academy as an educational institution and reflecting on the quality of its graduates...
...silent strike lacks the flaming publicity of the open one, but it can be reached only with the greatest difficulty by court or arbitration board or employer. It is a hidden, sinister thing that evades action. At the same time the silent strike cuts down production to an almost criminal extent. Especially is this so when the product is transportation, something which reaches every individual in the country...
Does a college education destroy initiative, and individuality, the something in certain men which makes them stand out as supreme geniuses, or does it cause the finished product, the college graduate to emerge from his own particular Alma Mater with the same ideas and the conventional outlook upon the problems of life as is possessed by the thousands of other youths who also are college bred? Does college kill the genius by making him conventional, and does it make the fool over, because he has been trained in the ways and thoughts of intelligent men? If so, education...