Word: storing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Seniors wishing to obtain caps and gowns at the lower cost of $4.65 must be measured at the Co-operative Society store today...
...glamour for the university man which is possessed by such professions as medicine, law, and engineering. Narrow-minded prejudice against trade is, however, giving way to a new order of judgment, a spirit of true democracy, which recognizes a man by his deeds. The management of the department store, in all its complicated details, requires the greatest of intelligence and foresight. Each department must be handled with particular consideration, for the amount of capital and stock for the different branches of the business cannot be generalized. A system adequate for the successful operation of such a business is necessarily complicated...
...most important factor in the management of the department store is the personal element, which is essential to success. Care, good breeding, intelligence, and fidelity are indispensable, and there is a field for originality and intellectual growth. Though the retail business has reached a high level, there will always be a vast opportunity for men with first-class executive and financial ability to broaden and improve the business profession...
...present time few of them engage in retail trade. Though in recent graduating classes at Harvard more than one-half of the members have announced their intention of going into "business," they usually enter manufacturing, wholesale trading, or some form of banking. The evolution of the department store, involving the centralization under a single management of many operations of trade and manufacturing, is a development of the present which has raised the retail business to the dignity of a profession demanding education and careful training...
...report also appeals for more room in which to store the constantly growing collection of specimens...