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...University has a brand-new diagnosis of the conditions which are causing academic congestion. The trouble, in his opinion, is due not so much to the fact that too many men are going to college as that often the wrong kind of men are going. "The vast majority would profit far more by some other kind of education than that given in the traditional American college", he says...
...form of chickens, then these chickens grown up to fully developed hens and roosters of unlimited lung power,--and now alligators. The process of evolution still remains unchecked. If alligators have any of the qualifications of guinea pigs, it would be well for the Postal Authorities to profit by the sufferings of that valiant official of the sister service, the express,--Mr. O'Flaherty of "Pigs is Pigs...
...University bureau of business research, acting with the co-operation and financial assistance of the National Dry Goods Asociation, after a pioneer survey of doing business in department stores, has come to the conclusion that a read-justment of operating expenses is necessary to restore net profit to normal in this business. The average net profit realized in the department store trade in 1921 was 1.3 per cent, of net sales, which is considered too small. The bureau also discovered that a rapid rate of stock-turn is fully as important in department stores as in other businesses...
...rule, but not always. A man who is honest solely because it is the best business policy is honest only from a broad perception of his own material interest, not from any moral principle. If placed in a position where a dishonest act would yield a profit and could never be discovered, or do him any worldly harm, he would have no reason, drawn from the best policy principle, to shun the dishonest act. That is if he had no sense of an inherent moral motive for being honest...
Doubtless some ambitions candidate for the Ph.D. degree will in due time find amusement and profit in a thorough investigation of the early life of other Infant Industries: until then it is use less to speculate further. But the case of the Merchant Marine remains clear cut. Rocked in the cradle of the deep and nourished with the vintage of better years, this lucky foundling may be expected to pass rapidly from infancy to justy childhood. And who knows but that in a few years' time it may assume the same proportions as did our merchant fleet in the days...