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...more or less closely affiliated under the responsibility of one man-in most cases, the President. But with the growth of universities and the expansion of their financial interests, his combined position of head master and business manager has become too exacting. The University of Pennsylvania feeling that the task was too great to be administered with thorough efficiency by a single person, no matter how great his capabilities, decided to separate entirely the financial and educational branches...
...Constitution to the extent of altering our form of government, and also fits in with the spirit of the time, which counsels that all measures which may be disputed in the future should be inserted into the almost impregnable Constitution. It might seem that by attempting the difficult task of passing an amendment the Federation is blocking its chance of accomplishing its purpose; but nothing is more sure of success than a highly organized, determined minority, and this the Federation most assuredly...
...shrewd professor", says the current number of the Independent in a short dissertation on Frontier Wars in College, "goes at his task by indirection, by raising frontier disputes with his neighbors. Since the dividing lines between subjects of study, like those between nations, are usually quite arbitrary and accidental, this is not hard to do". In so far as the impartial college president will permit it, so the periodical infers, our instructors are engaged in an unceasing border warfare which results in a balance of power as proclaimed in the announcement of courses. "To multiply subjects is to multiply rivalries...
...matter of fact the straight and narrow path is neither particularly straight nor uncomfortably narrow. Almost anything short of arson and robbery, if done gracefully, will escape notice. The task of representing Yale should not be difficult for men trained on this campus. There are only a few things to remember and the greatest of these is courtesy. Accordingly through the approaching summer when the horned gentleman tempts to crime remember that the critical graduate and the gossipping world are at his heels. And their tongues wag loudly--like a minority of touchdowns in November. Yale News
...ready-made system will solve all his troubles. That is impossible. We cannot prescribe ready-made methods that will fit all the circumstances throughout the country. We cannot find any genuine substitute for the individual initiative, imagination, and foresight which always have been essential for business success. The big task is to get real facts and collective experience which the individual merchant can interpret and apply to the management of his business...