Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that goes to the root of the matter. 'It seems clearer every day', writes Mr. Keynes, 'that the moral problem of our age is concerned with the Love of Money, with the habitual appeal to the Monday Motive, with the social approbation of Money as the measure of constructive success...
...science of economics. These do not determine or greatly affect the character of the school. I call attention to a significant word in the title of the Harvard School. It is called the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Note the word 'administration'. It means the successful carrying out of a business enterprise, which is technical, not intellectual, in quality. If there were such a thing as a university school of business, it would not be preoccupied with the training of executives and with working out a technique by which young men may win quick promotion. It would be concerned...
...Business School claims to offer to young men going into business the training needed for practice and earlier opportunities for executive responsibility. The words that keep constantly recurring are 'executives, general executives, executive work, management, advertising as an instrument to be used by executives in order to obtain financial success'. Sections dealing with social policies, with business history from a cultural or intellectual point of view, are brief. Now the executive is only one of the four or five elements that would be prominent in a university school of business if business were a profession. The laborer is as important...
...proposed remedy, that universities should free themselves from the shackles of commercialization by the route of endowment, is sound. A transformation of emphasis there must be and it can come only from a determined and unceasing effort on the part of universities to break the spell of monetary success and attract brilliant men into cultural rather than lucrative pursuits...
...Night With Barrie is really a night with Laurette Taylor, who is currently appearing in two Barrie plays, Alice Sit-by-the-Fire and The Old Lady Shows Her Medals, across the street from the theatre in which she made her first success 20 years ago as Peg o' My Heart...