Judge — November 2, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Yeah! Business! nanker who is a Cornell graduate, giving an A interview to the Daily Princetonian, says that if you are going into business a colleg tion sets y educa tback three or four years. Coll + he s. isa place where you get into slow habits of thinking and it “cannot produce in men the drive that business gives them.” It seems that the back bone of business today is “rapid absorption of de- tails” and college docs not train for that. If vou simply must go to college before entering business, “take as much mathematies as possible and least "And go in for hating This banker says that he attributes to debati the good he got from college, “for it taught me to think rapidly and accurately and to carry a wealth of detail in my head at all times.” It occurs to us that if the gentleman had thous! as rapidly and accurately as he should he would have kept this interview out of the paper, and that per haps he details in that poor head of his that he can’t grasp the main issue. S us think that one trouble with this country is that there is too much business-bred “drive” and too little slow thinking. We don't want to absorb details, We don't we © in debate, which we understand to be th nd exclusive espousal of only one side of a question. And God bless you, sir, our idea is to take just as little mathems times we are so heretical as to think that business isn’t perfect yet and that the hope for its future rests largely with college-trained men. But not with the kind that will give or accept such advice. one foreign) lan as so ma me of Canned Education BE pucatton through the movies, a dream of the past 4 decade, has found an angel in’ William Fox. Nobody ever mistook Mr. Fox for an angel before, but he really sounds as if he meant it. Anyway, | offers to give to the cause one quarter of his person: fortune, which would mean some 000,000. He wants to put a talking-movie machine in every class- room in the schools of the country and feed them film lectures by the world’s “st men, HL. ( Wells, who started on this idea years ago, is already making a talkie on the history of civilization, The first t made, for use in teaching in the medical schools. Mr. ‘ox thinks that every church should be equipped to JUDGE see and hear films recorded by the world’s reli leaders—strictly segregated as to creeds, of course, We are all for the plan. At least it ought to cut down the amount damage done by dub te: and preachers. Canned foods are a great improve ment upon the half-baked, unappetizing cookery of the average home kitchen, Canned education will he reat deal more digestible and nourishing than the old variety. But the tidbits of knowledge it’ can | wz will be largely factual. For the trans 1s nobody has ever been able to build a better machine than the traditional log with a student. sit- ting on one end and Mark Hopkins on the other. The igniting spark of education will continue, it has from Socrates down, to spring only from the im- pact of personalitics present in the flesh. * * . M tuner Taws are queer, In Conneticut thy 4¥E wedding must take place in the town where the A while ago a couple got. their Britain and had a public wedding Not until after they had dashed away ina shower of confetti did it occur to somebody that the clubhouse stands on the city line and the room in which the ceremony had been performed happens to be just over in the town of Berlin. body knew where the honeymooners had gone. So their worried parents appealed to the State legis! ture which promptly validated the marriage by pass- F Tact which was solemnly signed by the nd all was well, Incidents like this re- mind us how jealously onr civilization safeguards the institution upon which the home is built. license is issued. license in’ New at the country club, Amateuriana I opened its. se in New bang and a. roar. Stapletons cx to play Benny Friedman's and brought Isl including corps and acrobatic cheer leaders in white flannels and turtl k sweaters. On both sides of the field there was plenty of vociferation. Both teams played hard, skilful and colorful football, The whole affair was quite collegiate. The only difference was that there wasn't as much money taken in at the the college stadiums are good for. Say what you will, it es the good old amateur spirit to get full commercial value out of the game. most of the population of brass band, a piccolo and drum R.JW, icomicbooks.com