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...Greeley Abbott, zealous for his scientists' labors and his Institution's reputation, made a loud and lusty complaint. Those book agents, he declared, were misrepresenting. They let buyers believe that the Smithsonian Institution was publishing the books and making large profits. Really the Smithsonian Scientific Series, Inc., new Manhattan concern, was publisher. The Institution received only 10% royalties, a ridiculously small percentage, which he had vainly sought to get increased, whereas the book agents were getting 25% to 35% commissions. The Institution was tied up by contract for 30 years...
...vogue of saying sensational things about colleges and college men has spread so widely of late that pungent opinions on the subject have ceased to be a cause of any deep concern. But though extreme remarks usually carry with them the warrant of their own weakness, some of them strike near enough the truth to be suggestive as caricatures. Into this class falls a remark recently published in a New York paper to the effect that colleges are not attended for the purpose of obtaining an education, but because it is the thing...
...calling on the county and state commissioners. Much has been said of that indefinable personality which a salesman should have. Here I think, however, we have again done some debunking. The only personality requirement for successful sales work is that a man be an adequate representative of his concern and that he be socially acceptable to the class of customers on whom he calls...
...management of the banking business but in the guidance of the bank's employes. With proper help, the souls and minds of his hundreds of workers would be stimulated, developed, perfected. But thoughtless, untactful employers resulted in employes with ambitions thwarted and stunted. Mr. Alexander's first concern lay not with the fortunes of the bank but with its souls...
Reparations and the Allied Debts had been a matter of concern to him since the close of the war, and he, in the role of adviser to President Wilson, was largely responsible for introducing a note of sanity into estimates made at Versailles by the apostles of the revanche. The American observers and officials connected with the operation of the Dawes Plan have retied upon him constantly, for advice...