Word: trade
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences the Toppan Prize of $150, the gift of Robert Noxon Toppan '58, of Cambridge, was awarded for 1915-1916 to Clarence Henry Haring '07, Ph. D. '16, for an essay entitled, "Trade and navigation Between Spain and the Indies Under the Hapsburgs." The judges were Professor Guy S. Ford of the University of Minnesota and Professor William MacDonald of Brown University...
...ultra-modern programs is that they tend to make education a vocational training instead of a personal cultivation, to make wealth instead of happiness the goal of a child's studies. A man of fifty surely is not a better surveyor or a better electrician for having attended a trade school at sixteen. He has simply started earlier, at the sacrifice of certain kinds of learning which cannot be acquired later. And if one fellow gets his start, others must compete with him in the same way. Thus the old condition will re-assent itself until someone takes an earlier...
...direction for able college students of trained judgment and clear vision who, on learning the technique of the particular occupations, may be counted upon for leadership and direction. There is also the official public service, embracing a very large number of reasonably attractive positions, particularly in the consular, foreign trade, engineering, and technical branches. More serious attention is now being given to the standardization of salaries and grades and methods of promotion in order that young men and women may find careers within the service of the state. Those who do enter government employment and find the way blocked quite...
...through delegation to give to each proper advice. Students who desire to have a general business course will find such a curriculum mapped out for them. Others who may prefer to specialize will find a sequence of courses in a variety of subjects; accounting, banking, finance, transportation, commerce and trade, business organization and management, manufactures, advertising and salesmanship, and the like. At the end of the second year the degree of Bachelor of Science will be awarded so that those who do not care to defer their entrance into a practical business career may start...
...considerable number of men have told me that they were going in for military training because it was less technical and could be learned more quickly and easily. If they are right it is the very strongest argument for men of intelligence, and men who have followed a trade or profession which would help to make them useful in the navy, to take a course in naval training...