Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There has now developed a cooperation between the representative, the foreman and time study department, the representative acting as a sort of buffer, showing a desire to have the work done in the quickest method and on machines that were suitable for it. We've always made them that way,' is now seldom offered as an alibi, under the close analysis given the job by the combined efforts of this cooperation...
...acknowledge your courteous letter in which you ask me to express an opinion as the causes of what you evidently think is a rather general belief that a Harvard education tends to make a man a snob. The quickest and best way to answer your question is to say simply that I neither think it does nor do I think that there is any such general belief. I know nothing of the alleged "hostility" to Harvard either in the west or elsewhere to which the editorial from the CRIMSON, which you so kindly enclose, refers, and I am disinclined...
...Harvard men whom they consider to be snobs attribute the fact of snobbishness to the men themselves rather then to the college from which they were graduated. If there exists a wide-spread belief outside New England to the effect that Harvard College is a manufactory of snobs, the quickest way to remove hostility to Harvard arising from such a cause is to disabuse the popular mind of such a notion, and the surest way to do this is not by propaganda but by example. CARL S. JOHNSON...