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Some say this. Some say that. But every one would like to have the railroads run with low rates, high wages, satisfactory profits. One of the great arguments that much could be done in achieving this kind of millenium has been what Henry Ford has achieved in the operation of his private railroad, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton. Mr. Ford's operation of this road has often led to loose conclusions as to what could be done to improve railroad conditions by legislation, Accordingly, the Committee on Public Relations of the Eastern Railroads made an investigation to find out what...
...considered the ultimate ideal of things scholastic, even the teaching of the three rudimentary R's is often inefficient and unsatisfactory. If this state of affairs is remedied, and an effective system installed which would insure better, more uniform standards from Provincetown to San Francisco, Dean Churchill's educational millenium would be considerably nearer at hand...
That students will seek learning for its own sake will not be due to the millenium, but to natural causes developing more and more rapidly. When these causes produce their effects the administrative machinery now existing in colleges will become completely incapable of dealing with students as they are now dealt with. To take care of the future undergraduates as they are now being cared for would require a legion of deans and a stadium for records. True now, it will be equally true then, that the cheapest and most economical way of caring for an individual...
...absent, and the diffusion of cultural education "to all members of society" may be much slower than expected. Certainly, the more such knowledge can be spread, the better; and if an aristocracy of brains can be succeeded by a democracy with the same level of mental attainment, the millenium will be near...
Professor Lake's experiment in allowing his students in English 35a to choose between two systems of grading is a step towards the millenium when the necessary evil of marking will be entirely done away with. At best marks are a mechanical method of recording knowledge, and at worst they are a false goal which hides the real purpose of education from careless eyes. For many undergraduates work for a C rather than for the opportunities which a course offers. Even among the men of highest distinction the mark seeker is in evidence...