Background
Morris Llewellyn Cooke was born on May 11, 1872 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of William Harvey Cooke, a doctor, and Elizabeth Richmond Marsden.
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Our Cities Awake: Notes on Municipal Activities and Administration (Classic Reprint)
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Academic and Industrial Efficiency: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation, for the Advancement of Teaching (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Academic and Industrial Efficiency: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation, for the Advancement of Teaching The reason for such a study as is set in the present bulletin is found partly in the existence in the college of new and large problems and partly in the criticism of American colleges and universities made during the past few years by business men, I believe that American men of education have faith in the future of the American college, and that they welcome any effort on the part of the business community or other intelligent men interested in education to better either the educational organization or the educational curriculum. This study is offered from the viewpoint of one outside college work who has to do in the main with the study of the efficiency of industrial establishments. The administrative organization of American institutions of higher learning more nearly resembles business organizations than do those of most countries. The machinery of organization, with a president, a board of trustees, and a staff of deans and assistants, resembles closely the business organization of a corporation, with its president, its board of directors, and its heads of departments. One of the questions most frequently asked by foreigners concerning American institutions is, whether this organization, business-like at least in appearance, is consistent with academic freedom and elasticity, and whether it furnishes results comparable in efficiency with the large measure of authority vested in it. One may distinguish roughly three different aspects of American university activity, in reference to each of which it will naturally be asked how far criticism from the standpoint of the present bulletin is pertinent. First, in so far as the American university handles money and deals with questions of effective organization and administration, any experience derived from the industrial world is distinctly applicable. Second, there is apparently a realm to which the industrial point of view is obviously inapplicable. The manufacturer must know in terms of dollars and cents the actual cost of every step he takes and of every product he turns out; and even when he carries on some particular form of activity at a loss, it is on the basis of a calculation that he will create ultimately a market sufficiently large to convert the loss into final gain. In the upper regions of academic activity, namely, in the field of research, no such close or consistent correlation between work and expense is feasible. A certain degree of irresponsibility must be conceded to the investigator. He must be allowed to take large chances, if his judgment approve. The ultimate outcome of an expensive research may be slight, just as the ultimate outcome of an inexpensive research may be extremely precious or profitable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Morris Llewellyn Cooke
Edit ProfileEducation
He attended Lehigh Preparatory School and Lehigh University, graduating in 1895 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Career
After an apprenticeship at Cramp's Shipyard in Philadelphia and work in various companies--interrupted by a term in the navy during the Spanish-American War--he rose to executive positions, primarily in printing firms, and practiced as a management consultant. He found inspiration in the principles of scientific management developed by Frederick W. Taylor.
Engineers were to organize effort towards greater production, for only an economy of abundance would permit humanity to move toward social justice and moral advancement.
Cooke served in the Blankenburg reform administration of Philadelphia (1911 - 1915), as director of public works; he led a fight against the Philadelphia Electric Company, which focused his attention on the issue of electric rates and monopoly power.
After serving on the United States Shipping Board during World War I, Cooke campaigned to develop further uses of electricity and to control the utility holding companies.
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him to the Power Authority of the State of New York in 1931. During the New Deal, Cooke advised the Tennessee Valley Authority, organized conferences, and chaired study committees.
Roosevelt appointed him the head the Mississippi Valley Committee, in the Public Works Administration. In 1934 Roosevelt appointed him to a national power policy committee that was to draw up legislation on holding companies. Although it outlined what became the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, the group, to Cooke's disappointment, never formulated a general policy. As director, Cooke was to lend money to groups that would construct lines and distribute current. At first it was unclear who these recipients should be, but rural cooperatives emerged as affective agencies, and REA successes stimulated the electric companies to extend their own lines to the countryside.
As administrator Cooke sometimes lacked decisiveness. His faith in technology led him to take an apolitical stance that disturbed those fellow liberals who, like his successor John Carmody, regarded private utility officials as "skunks on principle. " Yet it was Cooke, more than any other individual, who created the REA. He resigned his post in March 1937. In 1950 President Harry S. Truman appointed him chairman of the President's Water Resources Policy Commission.
Achievements
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He formulated a "Giant Power" plan for a state-directed reorganization of the electric industry, providing for mine-mouth generating plants, long-distance transmission lines, rural electrification, and continuing oversight by public boards. During World War II, Cooke negotiated the settlement of an oil dispute with Mexico. He also headed a mission to survey the resources of Brazil. He served as chairman of the President's Water Resources Policy Commission. Cooke developed a progressive interpretation of scientific management. Perhaps Cooke's most significant achievement came in 1935, when he prevailed upon Roosevelt to set up the Rural Electrification Administration (REA).
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Academic and Industrial Efficiency: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation, for the Advancement of Teaching (Classic Reprint)
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Our Cities Awake: Notes on Municipal Activities and Administration (Classic Reprint)
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Snapping cords: comments on the changing attitude of American cities toward the utility problem.
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Our Cities Awake Notes on Municipal Activities and Administration
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Brazil on the March : A Study in International Cooperation
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Academic and Industrial Efficiency: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation, for the Advancement of Teaching (Classic Reprint)
Politics
He was a Progressive Republican.
He came to believe that collective bargaining was a necessity; and he sharply distinguished business from engineering. Although never an advocate of public ownership, he insisted that government must direct the uses of science and technology for the benefit of all.
As the head the Mississippi Valley Committee in the Public Works Administration, he tried to order the task so that "as it goes forward it should secure the outlines of an ultimate planning agency for the nation as a whole. " In its report in December 1934, the committee proposed that the federal government establish a many-faceted program for the watershed, dealing with soil erosion, public works, hydropower, and rural electrification. Cooke also favored federal reforms of land use (1936).
Like many other Progressives and New Dealers, Cooke believed deeply in the benefits of technology and of government planning. He was primarily a disseminator of ideas, but in the long run he greatly contributed to the movement for public control of resources and of the environment.
Views
Quotations: "There is a philosophy and an art and a science of human labor".
Interests
Connections
On June 16, 1900, he married Eleanor Bushnell Davis; they had no children. With her encouragement Cooke threw his energy into a variety of projects.
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