"Why," said the student, "the idea is that from the Curve
we can get the Norm of the employe."
"Get his Norm?" I asked.
"Yes, get the Norm. That stands for the Root Form of the
employe as a social factor."
"And what can you do with that?"
"Oh, when we have that we can tell what the employe would
do under any and every circumstance. At least that's the
idea--though I'm really only quoting," she added, breaking
off in a diffident way, "from what Miss Thinker, the
professor of Social Endeavour, says. She's really fine.
She's making a general chart of the female employes of
one of the biggest stores to show what percentage in case
of fire would jump out of the window and what percentage
would run to the fire escape."
"It's a wonderful course," I said. "We had nothing like
it when I went to college. And does it only take in
departmental stores?"
"No," said the girl, "the laboratory work includes for
this semester ice-cream parlours as well."
"What do you do with _them_?"
"We take them up as Social Cells, Nuclei, I think the
professor calls them."
"And how do you go at them?" I asked.
"Why, the girls go to them in little laboratory groups
and study them.
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