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Page 77 - The right of Inheritance, including the designation of heirs and the proportions which the several heirs shall receive, as well as the right of testamentary disposition, are entirely matters of statutory enactment, and within the control of the legislature. As it Is only by virtue of the statute that the heir is entitled to receive any of his ancestor's estate, or that the ancestor can divert his estate from the heir, the same authority which confers this privilege may attach to It the condition...
Page 77 - right" of inheritance, including the designation of heirs and the proportions which the several heirs shall receive, as well as the "right" of testamentary disposition, are entirely matters of statutory enactment and within the control of the legislature. As it is only by virtue of the statute that the heir is entitled to receive any of his ancestor's estate...
Page 203 - REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO SUMMARIZE THE VIEWS OF THE STANFORD CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS EDUCATION The ultimate test of an executive is ability to handle business wisely and well. To the extent that such ability can be developed by systematic education, it is the task of the graduate school of business to develop it. The task cannot be done merely by stocking students up with facts or even with ideas that are simply given him to absorb.
Page viii - The time has come when business problems should be dealt with as an art and when business management should be established as a profession. . . . Not only is business concentrating responsibilities on its managers by its own organization, but in addition business is adopting and endeavoring to harness, in the public interest, the inventions of science. It is fostering their rapid development and as a result science is making available at a pace hitherto unknown...
Page 106 - ... cases" and materials. Just as a medical school, or any other professional school worth the name, is not performing its full function unless it is contributing to thoroughgoing research on the fundamental problems in the field of medicine...
Page 207 - It should be the aim of the Graduate School of Business to give each student such discipline and opportunity as will best round out and enlarge his innate capacity along the lines in which he shows the greatest promise of achievement. In order that necessary stimulus may be given to such individual development, it is essential that the school should never become too large to permit intimate personal contact and guidance.
Page 45 - I know of no reason why it may not expand as much in the next fifty years as it has in the last fifty.
Page 105 - He told the assembly that just as a medical school, or any other professional school worth the name, is not performing its full function unless it is contributing to thoroughgoing research on the fundamental problems in the field of medicine...
Page 148 - The function of such a guide will be to provide occasion by setting before the student problems or situations or ideas which will give him an opportunity to teach himself, to the end that he will gain confidence in his own judgments, and will acquire the habit of constantly checking them up with experience. The besetting sin of college men is superficiality. It goes a long way toward canceling the advantages of his wider knowledge gained in school. Unlike the man in actual business, the student does...
Page 70 - Canada expect it of them, to give a full day's work for a full day's pay, and to receive fair treatment.