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...result of the match between the University and Yale chess players held at New Haven in Dwight Hal. The ten games began at 7.30 o'clock with the University men playing "white" on the odd-numbered boards. The last games ended at 11.30 o'clock--the shortest game-having lasted but 20 minutes. If the advantage gained in the two deciding games, on boards 5 and 7 respectively, could have been kept the University team would have won the match by two games, as only one was necessary...
...ministry, in the law, and in medicine, experience has proved that the shortest and most effective way to learn the fundamental facts, principles, and standards of the particular profession and to prepare for its practice is in a good school. This is just as true of business. The busy executive has neither time, the specialized training, nor the equipment for teaching beginners. The college man entering a job finds himself doing routine work with a lot of others and has very few chances to see how the executive disposes of his problems or even to know what the problems...
...school training as is the entrance to law or medicine but there is a growing recognition among business men that-executive training difficult to get in a business organization is possible in a business school. I believe it will soon be recognized that adequate business school training offers the shortest and the surest method by which a business enterprise may obtain trained executives...
...more general reason why we should vote for immediate ratification is this: War is made (by XII, I) an illegal process in any case if begun before a cooling-off period of three months has elapsed. Three months is, however, the very shortest period and and it presupposes that the Council reports a day or two after assuming jurisdiction of the critical dispute. But the Council is not obliged to report for six months and it certainly will take advantage of this longer period. The delay period of nine months will always be taken advantage of by the Council...
...both branches of the government are working under the theory that all things come to him who waits, and that the longest way round is the shortest way home. Meanwhile, trade is at a standstill, patents are in abeyance, and various anachronistic war powers of the government are functioning. This is, of course, of no moment to Senators. They must indulge in their wire-pulling, their mutual recrimination, their frightful political farce-making. It would be laughable did we not observe in it the tragic price we pay for American democracy...