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...serve two purposes. First, the greater part is to be used in research work to gather material to allow the Business School to follow the "case method." Material for these cases is collected with the consent of the corporations from which it is drawn and is worked up into problem books. These publications have been adopted by 106 colleges and universities in this country, 'showing that the school is producing valuable business instruction...
...South Africa, Egypt, Australia. Brazil, which years ago gave up cotton for other crops, is now planning to benefit from current soaring prices by again sowing her fields in cotton. It is apparent, therefore, that unless Government experts under the Department of Agriculture can shortly solve the weevil problem, the American cotton planter will face uncertain and precarious profits; while if the solution of the problem is long delayed, he will face international competition such as is at the bottom of the grain growers' dissatisfaction today...
...English military pilots. Two-seaters equipped with only five to ten horsepower are being developed for this purpose. Lack of funds has handicapped the British Air Force in their training program. The extremely low gasoline consumption of these tiny ships and their low replacement cost will solve the financial problem. Their low gliding and landing speeds may also facilitate the education of pilots in the early stages...
...easy to explain differences between European and American students on these grounds; there is compensation for all things and the attitude of the European student loses some of its attractiveness when it is realized as the corollary of unstable and unhealthy conditions. But Dr. Gray has raised a problem. If prosperity and content lead to enfeebled intellects, if education is not great enough to force upon the mind of students the problems of wrong and un-justice that remain, America is following the primrose path to ruin...
...control education but to promote it, should be the function of the national government. There is now no national supervision except for vocational and agricultural training. The rest is left to the states. But to leave the problem of education entirely to local communities has always proved a failure. That is why Horace Mann spent his life in fighting the district system in Massachusetts. Progress always results from enlarging the area from which support for education is drawn...