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There comes a stage in the growth of Institutions when increasing complexity requires specialized organization. That stage the Forestry School has reached. The two departments into which it would naturally be divided, however, fall into closer association with already existing graduate schools than with one another; and as a result the Forestry School as a distinct entity will cease to exist...
...extreme liberalism, rather than any conservatism, have long been the only cause of complaint. The names of Lowell and Emerson in the past are well matched today by those of Lowell and Eliot, of James and Santayana, of Taussig and Hart. It cannot be denied that intellectual restraint does exist in many colleges. That it does not exist at Harvard is one of our proudest boasts. In theory, Senator Hollis was right: but in fact he was wrong. Harvard is widely praised and widely attacked for leading the liberal thought of the country: to attack it for its conservatism...
...bearing added weight because they appear in an official document, sound the welcome closing of a needlessly hostile attitude, that has long and steadily been growing weaker at both universities. Yale and Harvard have too much in common, their ultimate aims too nearly coincide for any petty barriers to exist between them...
...accounts, item by item, with the average accounts of many fellow-traders and see wherein his business falls short of the average efficiency. While the conditions of manufacture have already been subjected to scientific study, little data available on retail selling. The shoe industry was chosen because there exist no wide differences between its products, and because this industry presents the typical conditions of retail distribution...
...large measure alleviated if attention were paid the familiar advice to do the reading early. But even making allowance for difficulties arising as a result of that particular human frailty of procrastination, there is still a very generally admitted insufficiency of books in many courses. At present no funds exist for the purchase of more books in such courses. Those books which the library owns have been secured from miscellaneous funds as fine money and special gifts. To really remedy the existing inefficient conditions some such system as is in force in the scientific departments where special fees are charged...