Word: visioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students enter upon their work as regular employees and are paid current wages for the work which they are doing. They are not placed in one department and left there, but are transferred from one kind of work to another in order to get a broad vision of the business, and a knowledge gained by experience of the most important and difficult of all problems, that of human labor. Their work is thoroughly supervised, they are given prepared lists of leading questions intended to guide them in their work, and they are required to report at frequent intervals about their...
...much the same thing in many different places. "We see no reason why a boy should not go to Harvard, and Columbia, and Chicago, a year at each place," said Henry U. Sims '97, of Alabama, speaking before the annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs. "It broadens his vision, it changes his influences." In other words, if the student body of a modern university represents a wider geographical area, it also represents a shifting population. The enormous increase this year of, the Unclassified men in the College would seem to bear out Mr. Sims' observations...
...does take several years of practical work to steady the theoretical knowledge, but once the proper balance is attained there can be no doubt that the man with the broadly trained mind is more valuable to a railroad than another man with equal native ability but without the wider vision. A judicious mixture of the two classes is beneficial to both...
...Love on a Blue Island," is perhaps even more mirth-compelling in its descriptions of utterly foolish incidents following a shipwreck; treated with a vigorous hand, it hurls chunks of humor, as it were, at the reader, who, if he be in the right mood, finds his vision obscured at times by tears of laughter. Uncontrollable chuckling seizes him at Mr. Brown's ludicrously chivalrous attitude to his fair companion on the desert isle and their common adventures it is only a pity that the ending is rather weak...
...those who have worked their way through college." The one who goes to college enters or rather continues in an artificial environment. He becomes engrossed in student activities which have about as much connection with the real world as a wart on the end of the nose has with vision. The average college man defers and temporarily sacrifices that association with older people and that intimate contact with concrete issues which are absolutely essential in making a man out of boy stuff. He would be spared much of delay could he have a clear understanding of his peculiar limitations before...