Letter to Richard C. Maclaurin

              June 28, 1919.

Mr. Richard C. Maclaurin, President,
Mass. Institute of Technology,
Boston, Massachusetts.

My dear Mr. Maclaurin:-

I am very much interested in your letter of June 24th, and agree with you entirely in your opposition to red tape of all kinds. Any increase in system which does not result in greater efficiency or economy should without question be thrown out.

However, the mechanisms of scientific management, while it is more elaborate than that of the old management, is still vastly more efficient, so that the use of our blanks and forms cannot be condemned in a wholesale way.

The principles of scientific management differ so radically from the principles of those in common use, that it is necessary to devote some little time to studying them, and then to see a concrete illustration of their application before it is possible to appreciate the cause for the enormous gain which results from the adoption of the new type of management.

If you have the opportunity, it would give me very great pleasure if you could come to my house in Chestnut Hill and spend a day with me, first in going over the fundamental principles of management and later in the day