Word: planted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...question of the value of college-bred men in business. Mr. Straus, who is Chairman of the Committee on Employment of the Harvard Club of New York City, tells a significant story of a brilliant college graduate who was offered a position involving statistical work in a large plant. Once at work, "Dean, the graduate in question, showed a flash of real brilliancy in analyzing the operations of two departments. The unfortunate factor was that in getting his data Dean antagonized every man he met. His sense of 'superiority,' his inability to handle other men or to mix with them...
After five months of steady work the process of transforming the Naval Radio plant, established here during the war, into that of the University's new Engineering School establishment, was virtually completed last week when the renovating of Pierce Hall was brought to a close. As a result, buildings, in which a year ago some 6,000 blue jackets were being taught wireless telegraphy, have now been so thoroughly made over that they contain a most comprehensive group of modern electrical, sanitary, mechanical and civil engineering laboratories of the highest order, as well as ample accommodations for all the allied...
...begun in earnest. In this work, Pierce Hall, which will be the headquarters, containing most of the offices, class rooms and drafting rooms, has been extensively changed. Partitions out in by the Navy have all been torn down and the whole building rewired and repainted. A modern oil-burning plant has been substituted for the old coal-consuming system. This serves the double purpose of furnishing power for the school as well as light and heat for several of the neighboring buildings...
...resigned from the University Press in order to go as Production Manager and General Superintendent of the printing plant of the New York Evening Post, of which former Dean Edwin F. Gay of the Graduate School of Business is now president...
...soon as the permit was issued, the carpenters were at work upon the partitions which must come down to clear the two upper stories. Pipes and machinery for the refrigerating plant have been ordered and the work will be rushed as fast as possible to make the Pavilion ready for its public opening on or about December...