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...have another very serious criticism of our so-called university schools of business. The frankest of them is the Harvard School, the faculty of which actually contains a few scholars who have a disinterested concern for the phenomena of the history of business and for the science of economics. These do not determine or greatly affect the character of the school. I call attention to a significant word in the title of the Harvard School. It is called the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Note the word 'administration'. It means the successful carrying out of a business enterprise, which...
...therefore sum up almost in a word my contention. It is the university's concern to face fearlessly problems of political organization and political theory, of social organization and social theory, of business organization and business theory; but it is no concern of the university to train in a technical sense either politicians or business men. The university will make its outstanding contribution to human thought and, in the long run, to human society if it assists men to comprehend. And this is precisely what university schools of business...
...broad and disinterested study will not lead to the immediate result in which business technicians are interested, and somehow Professor Whitehead could not lose sight of the technicians. We come, therefore, upon this startling sentence in which he differentiates between understanding, which I take to be the university's concern, and routine, which as such is no concern of the university at all except as a subject of investigation and criticism. Professor Whitehead says: 'Routine is more fundamental than understanding, that is, routine modified by minor flashes of short-range intelligence.' I call that a startling and significant sentence...
...prime concern to Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. is the fact that U. S. cinema attendance has declined about 30% in the last two years. Last week the organization took action. To the kind of people that Cinema Tsar Will Hays believes have lately begun to be interested in the cinema-bankers, editors, ministers, scientists, socialites, teachers, writers-were mailed 150,000 small blue leaflets, containing ballots. On each ballot were listed 34 species of cinema under six generic heads. Voters were asked to check their favorite kind of cinema, add remarks. Twelve million more such ballots will...
...principal difficulty that faces engineers in the construction of steeples is the wind stress. Although the girden seem scarcely able to support the stock pole, the chief concern is to make all joints form the ground up so tight that the wind will not be able to move the spire. Slender towers present little difficult since they expose a more or less rounded figure to the wind which meets more resistance in square buildings. Contrary to popular opinion the sway of even the tallest modern buildings does not exceed an inch. Experiments, in which a plumb line was dropped from...