Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...therefore sum up almost in a word my contention. It is the university's concern to face fearlessly problems of political organization and political theory, of social organization and social theory, of business organization and business theory; but it is no concern of the university to train in a technical sense either politicians or business men. The university will make its outstanding contribution to human thought and, in the long run, to human society if it assists men to comprehend. And this is precisely what university schools of business...
Reading his newspaper at the Columbia University Club in Manhattan where he resides, white-thatched Col. Lloyd Collis used to snort with annoyance every time he encountered a front page story "jumped" (continued) to an inside page. By the time he could find the continued part, his train of thought would have snapped. A civil engineer, a city planner, a man of action decorated by the U. S. and the City of Bordeaux for War service, Col. Collis took corrective steps. For three months he grappled with the problem; then he marched to his good friend Editor Julian Starkweather Mason...
...that President Harding had Negro blood. Should such methods be used to create the belief that Franklin D. Roosevelt '03, is physically unable to do the work of a president, proper tactics would be to send him on a long tour of the country, standing on the rear of train platforms, haranguing the crowds, all to be done without the aid of crutches, campaign managers told the committee. There is at present a completely groundless rumor to the effect that Newton D. Baker has angina pectoris; but then, as one Republican campaign manager put it, "Every Democratic candidate has something...
...supposed to have drives his ox-cart full of Aroostook potatoes all the way from Maine to Washington. In such a fashion, the potato growen set the name of their product before the public. The actual facts of the matter were that the potatoes were loaded of from a train on the outskirts of Washington. Makers of corn syrup sent around to newspaper household departments, recipes for cooking dishes they required corn syrup...
...mind in the school should be able to step into the college at its natural level and be able to continue where it left off, rather than being forced to repeat or retreat. If the boy is to come upon the tutorial system at college, then the school should train him to use this system. As education is essentially an attitude of mind it must be common to both secondary school and to college. Both parts of the system should be as if designed by one mind...