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Word: shuns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal college experience seems to push people in this direction. Then why the uproar? It seems to boil down to the one legitimate gripe that the business community makes. It claims that not enough students choose management as a career, and that it is the brighter students who shun it. Business says it wants the top of the graduating class to join the managerial ranks, and that it is not getting...

Author: By Franklin E. Smith, | Title: What Kind of Students Go Into Business? | 5/2/1968 | See Source »

Another reason that the more academically bright students at Harvard shun business is that, as Professor Kenneth Andrews has pointed out, although professional education for managers has progressed considerably, only recently has it been accepted as a legitimate "academic discipline." Graduate education has sky-rocketed in recent years, and has become mandatory for most of the professions. Law, medicine and scholarship all have necessary and accepted disciplines, where the structure and thought of the particular profession are taught. One must study at graduate school for these professions; one must embrace the discipline involved...

Author: By Franklin E. Smith, | Title: What Kind of Students Go Into Business? | 5/2/1968 | See Source »

...function in, and personally contribute to, society? What good does he do, aside from manufacturing widgits and making everyone want a widgits of his own? How does he behave? What is expected of him? Until this concept of role has been better assimilated by undergraduates many will continue to shun business...

Author: By Franklin E. Smith, | Title: What Kind of Students Go Into Business? | 5/2/1968 | See Source »

Ungar then decapitated his fear-trained rats, and prepared an extract from their brains. He injected the extract into the brains of the untrained animals and found that the untrained mice began to shun darkness. The average time that members of one group spent in the dark box declined to 98 seconds when each was injected with three-tenths of a gram of extract. It went down to 67 seconds when the injection was increased to six-tenths of a gram, and to only 24 seconds when a full gram was administered. Other groups injected with extracts from the brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biochemistry: Chemical Transfer of Fear | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...hardy band of holdout colleges is stubbornly bucking the irreversible trend toward greater reliance on Washington. These schools even shun the federal help already available, prefer to try to make it on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Federal Aid: Going It Alone | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

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