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...give an example of what I mean, do any of us know whether the fire departments in our towns do as good a job as they should? We see the engines tearing down the street, we see streams of water directed against the burning building, and ultimately the fire goes out. Who of us knows whether the firemen were unconsciously slow in putting out that fire and whether, therefore, entirely unnecessary damage resulted, or on the other hand were extraordinarly quick and effective and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property and a good many lives by their...
Altogether "The Mirrors of Grub Street" is a very creditable job. I hope to see The Advocate try it again, with a wider scope, a more serious program-and perhaps a sharper blue-pencil. Meanwhile I am, free to say that to the common or garden sort of outsider, who has been hearing-and sometimes saying himself-that the colleges are not turning out writers of good English, this display affords a most encouraging answer. Indeed, there is apparent in most of this collection a degree of literary finish and sophistication which some weary old hands might envy and emulate...
...wish that such a system were practiced in this country. The shortcomings of our civil service system are proverbial, but it is a novel suggestion to remedy them by abolishing the system altogether. It is at least conceivable that employes guaranteed their situations by politicians would loaf on the job fully as much as those who have earned those positions by examinations. Before shooting the cow because it gives no more milk it might be just as well to see if there is no less drastic remedy, and if the ailment is wholly the creature's fault anyway...
...defeated itself. Possibly its successor as "the thing to do" will be supplementary education as a garage mechanic in Kansas. At any rate, what intensive education lacks and what ostensive has, is the ability to train a man's capacity for growth instead of his fitness for any one job. He may not a single specific item of his four year undergraduate course, but twenty years afterward he will have a background impossible of attainment in any other...
...contrasted the Business School method of choosing intelligently the general field of a man's business activity, to the common process of finding someone who has a job to offer, with no regard for the fitness of the man to the job...