Word: wharton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transferable vote, or, for short, in this country, P. R." continued Professor Johnson who is a member of the Proportional Representative League in connection with such men as Ex-governor Robert P. Bass '96 of Massachusetts, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of government in the University, and Senator George Wharton Pepper of Massachusetts...
...plant of the Harvard Business School has no superior that I know of anywhere," Professor J. H. Willits of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, said to a CRIMSON reporter last night. Professor Willits is the head of the Department of Industry at Wharton School, as well as the head of the industrial Research Work being done there. As one of this country's outstanding authorities in the field of industrial relations, labor, and production, he is giving two lectures this week to the first year class of the Harvard Business School and is presenting cases to the second year...
...interesting contrast is furnished by the graduate and undergraduate business student," said Professor Willits "The Wharton School is an undergraduate school of business primarily. We have a two year graduate course in which men enroll who have graduated from an Arts College, but our chief attention is devoted to those who expect to enter business life after four years of college work. In consequence we have to recognize in our curriculum not only the business subjects, but also those 'educational universals' which should be in the possession of every educated man. I have found many experiments being tried...
...paragraphs Mrs. Wharton enunciates the fundamental differences between the novel and the short story, for "situation is the main concern of the short story, character of the novel." And it depends, she continues in her discussion of the short story, "almost entirely on its form or presentation." The short-story writer must not only know from what angle to present his anecdote if it is to give out all its fires, but must understand just why that particular angle and no other is the right one. This feeling of the mastery of the author is almost an invariable delight...
...unities which she lays down as principles for the short story writer she obeys almost throughout. The unities are those of time and vision, and they secure the effect of compactness and of instantaneity. "The Young Gentlemen," done in her most sure footed manner, shows Mrs. Wharton at her aggravating best, when she has a social situation well in hand, and a surprise lurking around the corner. But she does not satisfy here as in another story of the same lot, "The Temperate Zone," which represents her discernment of character displayed before a polite background, all very smooth and able...