Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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College should train a man to think and write concisely. The business world of today especially demands briefness. That point seems to be lost sight of at times when examinations are being marked...
...instructions on the examination papers often require that a question be answered briefly or in a definite number of words. One man will write on the question at full length or in twice as many words as the instructions specify. He will receive a satisfactory grade. Another man with equal knowledge of the answer will follow instructions explicitly and do the much harder task of keeping within the required bounds. His grade will suffer because of his briefness...
...Tutorial School" run by students, and employing the aid of the students is a business of no small importance. The heads of these schools are obtaining training in business organization, and are receiving excellent training in business management. The men who write the reviews are receiving excellent training which will be of practical benefit to them in after life, and the man who makes use of these notes and by so doing is able to pass a course, is going to remember about as much as if he had done enough work in the course of the year to give...
There is no reason for running the tutoring schools into the ground. Their labor is unquestionably productive in the Principles-of-Economics sense, for they satisfy a genuine economic "want" If the men who operate them and the men who write their notes. "Harvard men the same as the rest of us," find them profitable is none of our affair. Whether or not the business is of "no small importance," as our contributer says, there is no question it is of no small proportions, particularly at Mid years...
Very few men in their Senior year can sit down and write out a substantial check to the Class fund. The gift must be in the nature of a dividend on the future, but it is a dividend that no one will begrudge...