Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bradley De Lamater Nash '28 of Brookline manager of the University Hockey team in his senior year, has been awarded the annual prize for research offered by the Chicago Truat Company...
...millenium is at hand. Happiness is to be produced, like toothpicks, by scientific, large-scale methods. The Personnel Research Federation recently organized in New York announces that science and business are to be united in its study of "the human factor" in industry. "To weed misfits from American industry, and to make its millions of workers happier, more efficient, and more productive," is the ingenious wording of its purpose...
...doubt the Personnel Research Federation can increase the efficiency and productiveness of workmen. But it is a naive assumption that by so doing it will also increase their happiness. Strange as it may seem, and irrational as it undoubtedly is, happiness does not follow from efficiency perse...
...hope to attain. The prospect which greater efficiency holds out to the intelligent worker is the possibility of becoming a more nearly perfect cog in the system which he already hates. By what strange stretch of the imagination, can one call this making workers happier? Indeed, for the Personnel Research Federation to say it is investigating "the human factor" in industry is a misnomer. It would be better to call it "the flesh and bone factor." There is nothing human about...
...Chamber of Commerce Building President Lowell will be the toastmaster. The speakers will include Hon. Frank L. Polk, President of the League and former Under Secretary of State, and Dr. Charles A. Beard, former Professor at Columbia, and subsequently a Director of the Institute of Municipal Research in Tokyo, Japan...