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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...shun the spotlight or deserve it more than Author Grant Gilmore, 57. In a profession uncommonly full of intelligent men, the University of Chicago law professor draws an embarrassment of praise from normally reserved colleagues. His sweeping scholarship allows him to "accomplish the impossible," says New York University's Lawrence King, while Stefan Riesenfeld of the University of California praises his writing style, which "makes study a pleasure instead of a chore." One of Gilmore's students calls him "the most popular classroom professor at the law school"; another thinks that he has "the most brilliant mind." Friend...