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...proven examples of "consecutive study for its own sake" that adults might be more generally engaged in: a course at Bryn Mawr College for working girls; the Williamstown Institute; certain mountain schools in the South; a Danish folk school in Pennsylvania; Commonwealth College (for workers) at Mena, Ark.; a foremen's course in an industrial town: a study group of business executives; reading and business executives; reading and discussion groups at Amherst College; the projected education of enlisted men in the Army...
...business. As compared with Latin, Greek, the Renaissance and plane (not solid) ornithology, the study of business is a tender plant, and must be watered if it is not to perish in all but a few enthusiastic garrets. The President, and good fellows, and overseers and superintendents and foremen of Harvard were wise to see this obscure condition clearly, and courageous to remedy it. In action, their courage exceeded their wisdom, and they have constructed a mechanism so vast, and a financial reservoir of proportions so oceanic that the tender plant is in more danger of being drowned than...
Spirit. "To the tens of thousands of production slaves out of whose very hides are tanned the hundreds of millions of Ford profits, he is looked upon as a mean, heartless miser and a hypocrite par excellence. A great spirit permeates the Ford organization (from the foremen up) known as the 'Ford spirit...
...state their chosen life careers. Five-sixths of them had so chosen. In the new classification, it was found that boys headed for professions were far superior in mental equipment to all the others. Prospective farmers were second, salesmen and clerks third, clerical workers fourth, skilled artisans fifth, foremen and business executives last. Among the girls, prospective foremen and business heads led the rest, artisans were second, professional workers third, homemakers fourth, clerical workers last...
...accounts were somewhat exaggerated. The official report which was given out by the Committee of the Associated Industries was perfectly accurate. We made a personal search in four selected industrial establishments for young people of marked promise. We found a certain number of boys who were commended by their foremen and superintendents and brought them over to our Psycho-Educational Clinic for intelligence tests. The results ought not to have been taken as showing that anyone we found is a genius. Intelligence tests do not reveal genius and are not intended to prove that those who rank high on them...