Word: spending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...November, 1931. It is under the direction of M. Pierre Jolly, Head of the Research Department of the Chamber of Commerce of Paris, and also leading light in a new research organization that will collect cases for the school. To complete his plans for its curriculum, M. Jolly will spend the month of February in Cambridge, studying the methods of approach of the Harvard Business School...
...proper equipment. His concentration will have given him sufficient knowledge and training to hold his job; his distribution will have endowed him with certain stimulating outside interests to serve as retreats from his job; his social and athletic training will have given him friends, and prepared him to spend his leisure time amiably...
...waste of time for a boy to spend a year after leaving preparatory school in such experiment. Either he finds that he likes his work and continues in it or he finds that he does not and comes to college without misgivings. In either case, he will have avoided the aimless and meaningless college years which are the real waste--a waste of mind and spirit, as well as time, for many students. There is much talk now of the desirability of sending boys to college earlier, but I have found that some of the best students are those...
...very lukewarm official approval. In both communities, the clubs have become exceedingly popular. Their members are adroit and expert aviators, but, for the most part, lamentable scholars. The academic mortality of members of the flying clubs far outruns that of the pedestrian students; and naturally enough, for the members spend so much of their time at the airports that they soon leave their studies far in arrears. It is a far more challenging thing to a boy of this temperament to obtain his pilot's license than to labor all year for three dull...
...Telluride bank (TIME, Sept. 16), Mr. Waggoner was last week apprehended in a Wyoming tourist camp. He was traveling in his own car and under his own name, although he had adopted the subterfuge of shaving off his mustache. Arrested, he admitted his guilt, said that he expected to spend the rest of his life in jail, maintained that it was better for the depositors of the six Manhattan banks to lose $500,000 than for that loss to be concentrated on the depositors of Telluride. It was believed also that he had a grudge against Eastern capitalists...