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...Harvard Union Prize Essay are reminded that manuscripts are due in the Library of the Union before February 15. Prizes of $100 and $50 each are to be given by the Library Committee of the Union for the two essays which the judges consider best from a viewpoint of literary style. Essays should be of the type published in the Atlantic Monthly, but not intended primarily to show extensive research and therefore not to exceed $500 words in length. The judges will be announced as soon as appointed...
...ranks. Usually he began work at an early age, and his general education was limited. His specialized education was obtained in the hard school of practical experience. He has been inclined to regard years of practical experience as the only effective training for positions of responsibility. Holding that viewpoint, he has minimized the value of a broad education, and has looked upon the college graduate as a theorist. Facing this critical attitude the college man has been handicapped. His progress has been hard won. As he has compared notes with classmates who have gone into other lines of business...
Happily, however, the typical railroad officer of the old school is giving way to one of the newer generation, or he is changing his viewpoint. Of late there is evidence of a growing appreciation of the need of specially trained men for the subordinate official positions and as understudies for the higher places in railroad administration circles. College trained men, and especially those who have taken special courses in graduate schools of business administration, are being sought by the railroads. The Graduate School of Business Administration is having more requisitions for such men than it can fill. There never...
...Robinson, of the Workshop, from the artistic and architeetural point of view; Mr. Morton Mower of the Fine Arts Department, from the artistic; Mr. Howard Forbes, of the Workshop, from the lighting, and Professor George Pierce Baker '87, of the English Department, from the producer's viewpoint. A representative from the Architectural School, to be appointed, will also judge them from the architectural side...
...found that they resembled everyone else in the important points if not in the minor. They were always anxious to take good care of their families and to give their children an education. They were anxious to stand well among their neighbors but we must remember that their neighbors' viewpoint was different, perhaps, from that of ours...