Word: true
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more intelligent of the so-called "scientific managers" once had occasion to visit a factory that was reputed to be run on a thoroughly efficient and democratic basis. The managing employer, in the spirit of what he considered to be true democracy, had granted his employees the right of access at all times to the "front-office", for the purpose of voicing their complaints. In the course of his investigation, however, the visitor soon learned of several grave industrial abuses, to correct which no discoverable attempt had ever been made. Upon inquiring of the owner the meaning of this apparent...
...true that in questions of this kind, careful consideration should be given to a balance of interests,--of good against bad, of gain against loss. Often-times it happens that existing abuses are preferable to other evils of a more dangerous and destructive tendency. But in the case of supervised study, one has to reckon with a quite variable and therefore indeterminable quantity, namely, human nature. Will the average student study more and better under pressure of compulsion or of his own accord? In wartime, perhaps, no chance could be taken as to the probable outcome of this arrangement...
...States Army and as such must attend to their work just as loyally and faithfully as if the war were still going on. No army order ever ventured to assert that the duty of the soldier to obey is in any way lessened in time of peace. To be true to his oath, he must perform whatever task is allotted him with the best of good-will and cheerfulness...
Before this reaches you I shall be at the front. I regret that it will not be with my own. They are wonderful, and Europe is breathing a new air because of them. They have the vision--and the dreams of old men are coming true. I wish I could tell you the great pride and faith and elation the recognition of their spirit gives us. To be an American is today the proudest thing in the world. But even when one is not fighting as one of them--even though he wears another color, he is fighting with...
...matter of weeks; it concerns us all the more, therefore, to take care that all of the work which we do shall be our best and nothing else. The spectacular deeds of the battlefield are indeed an inspiration to equal achievement on our part, but it is also true that but few ever blundered into heroism. To most men it comes as a result of the ability to think quickly and act intelligently. Our work in the S. A. T. C. and the Naval Unit is for the most part training toward that end; the coming hour exams...