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From this time on, the role of the Business School must be a larger and a more responsible one. To study the technique of an industrial system which has shown its utter unfitness for any enlightened country, will not in the future be enough. Dean Donham, himself a leading advocate of voluntary planning, is under no delusions on this point. "The larger task ahead," he says in his latest report, "is the training of men for the kind of administrative responsibility which . . . recognized business not alone as an aggregation of specialities, or even as a unity which can be thought...
...college has indirectly suggested to the Advisers that they might cat more frequently with their advisee in order to become acquainted with them, a suggestion which may another year result in more than a nodding acquaintanceship between Adviser and Advisee. No mere suggestion, however, will ever dispense with the utter ignorance of courses and fields in which the majority of Advisers are content to bask. Not until the College insists that its advisers possess first of all a reasonably, complete knowledge of a t least the more popular fields of concentration, including a thorough appreciation of the possibilities of distribution...
...legislative attitude when he suggests that either the law must be changed to cut down the number of weeks or the schools must conform to the present ruling. It requires certainly no profound thought to see that if these qualifications for applicants are to signify anything save the utter ridiculous the quantitative method must give way immediately to the more intelligent method...
...forward in such fashion that as soon as a slightly wear)' Japanese brigade had captured a Jehol city, another Japanese brigade, fresh and boiling with zeal, pressed on with the offensive, thus keeping the Chinese in ceaseless headlong flight. Even the Japanese General Staff was amazed by the utter crumpling of Jehol's defense as Chinese "generals" either deserted their troops and fled or broke out Manchukuo flags to welcome the invaders...
...other parts of the banking system, especially in the-East, that similar protective measures became universally necessary. The superficiality of this explanation makes it peculiarly suitable for promulgation by bankers and a subsidized press. But to go just one step beyond this "lack of confidence" is to discover the utter incompetence and frequent dishonesty which have graced the laissez-faire operation of the American banking system. Incompetent management led to the failure of hundreds of small, undercapitalized state banks in the West which folded up at the first signs of receding prosperity. Dishonesty was largely responsible for the failure...