Word: uses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...library of the Graduate School of Business Administration has opened a new department, intended to provide students in the School with a knowledge of the tools and technique of business research. This consists of a laboratory in which students may examine and test all the labor-saving devices in use in modern business work. The Faculty had already obtained permission from over 150 business concerns in Boston, Cambridge and neighboring cities for students to examine their plants and business methods. The manufacturers of labor-saving devices for business purposes were then asked, on a basis of mutual advantage, to place...
...fering public insult to a leading citizen of one of our possible allies to be left uninvestigated? It is not so long ago that the Harvard authorities prevented the widow of Mr. Sheehy Skeffington from speaking in the college building, though it allowed men like Scott Nearing to use the same hall but a year before--because she was likely to make remarks about the treatment of her dead husband in the course of her speech that would be derogatory to another of our possible future allies. Well known citizens and respected professors such as Ralph Barton Perry and Albert...
...purpose of the society is to obtain precise information concerning these men. It will include the dates of service, the official titles and connection with organized bodies, the character of the work performed and the promotions and distinctions which have been won. Use has of course been made of newspapers and other reports, but it is desired to verify and complete any such information by first-hand statements from the men themselves or from their families...
There can be no question that the current Illustrated is the best number of the year. Notwithstanding the minor faults,--among which I would place the occasional faults in the composition mentioned above, the use of full-page cartoons, which seem rather flippant and cheap for a serious college pictorial, and the glaring double-page "ad" in the exact centre of the paper,--the issue is very creditable. It reflects University life in its clever photographs, and echoes the present universal stir for real preparedness in a way which should fully satisfy the most broad-minded among...
...hundred years from now, perhaps, the college drinking songs, for so many years popular with graduates, undergraduates and others without college associations, will have to be explained with diagrams to those who hear them or read their wording, and classed as relics of the days when the use of alcohol by those engaged in the pursuit of learning was not limited to scientific experiments. Boston Traveler...