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Twenty years ago, on June 1, 1907, President Eliot announced at the Detroit meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs that the university proposed to establish a graduate school for training in business. With a grant of $12,500 a year for five years from the Rockefeller Foundation and with an equal annual sum secured by Professor Taussig from friends of the cause, the Corporation was enabled on March 30, 1908, to establish the Graduate School of Business Administration. It opened its doors to students in September...
...favorable environment. The old training for business, formal or informal apprenticeship, was breaking down; the rule of thumb was giving way to instruments of precision and the intelligence to handle them. The majority of college graduates, even without any specialized education, were seeking business careers, where only a generation ago they were entering the older professions. There was dawning for business--and those who stood highest saw it--the day of systematized teaching of business principles and practice, just as earlier the same experience had come to accounting, the first business profession, to engineers, lawyers, doctors and clergymen...
Died. James ("Uncle Jim") McCoy, 80, of Pikeville, Ky., last of the McCoy clan, famed feudists against the Hatfields in the '705 and '80s; in Pikeville. The feud started over contested ownership of some sows and pigs, lasted until 25 years ago when a mountain preacher brought about a peace agreement. Last year Tennis Hatfield, grandson of onetime leader "Devil Anse" Hatfield, offered his hand in friendship to James McCoy, and the two walked arm and arm down the road...
...tale concerns Hidalgo County in far southeastern Texas. Twenty years ago Hidalgo was flat, hot, empty, covered with mesquite, stalked by lonely, dusty greasers. Today Hidalgo is a shining, fertile land, starred with endless constellations of grapefruit, melons and other juici- nesses?a lustrous feat of irrigation. Its crop is estimated at 4,500 carloads per year. Hidalgo homes are prosperous. Yancy Baker, onetime roughriding Hidalgo sheriff, now Democratic boss, lives in an enormous red and yellow showr place. Hidalgo people smile in the sun. Hidalgo ripens like its fruits. It has been irrigated financially through troughs of clever politics...
Three hundred years ago a band of Scotsmen, wearied of ecclesiastical feuds and tyrannous wars, sailed for America. Seeking a climate like their own they landed in Acadia, secured a grant from James I, fought the French, remained at Nova Scotia and colonized. Later some of them moved westward. Today Scottish-Canadians largely people the Dominion...