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...Training men for the war comes first," says Dean David of the Business School, "but we are doing all the research we can to anticipate some important post war problems." With this credo and the high-pressure efficiency of big business, the recently appointed chief has piloted the Business School safely through the storm of a gigantic war time reorganization...
...mislead strangers about the kind of businessman 54-year-old Donald Davis really is. No Horatio Alger up-from-nothing boy, he studied engineering at Michigan with the cold-blooded notion that he would avoid settling on any one career until he was 35. Living up to his credo, he shifted from senior engineer for a wheel company to cost accounting for a trust company to factory manager for an auto-accessory company which was making 75-mm. shell casings for World War I. He helped organize the milling division of Herbert Hoover's Food Administration, then switched again...
Periodicals dealing with subjects as ephemeral as "planning the post-war world" are apt to find themselves becalmed in the doldrums of utopian yearnings. "Threshold" has skillfully stayed afloat and on its course without jettisoning its credo...
Among the other points of great importance in the credo to which the students agreed are: (these are summaries, not direct quotes) There shall be no idea of racial superiority, and within countries all minorities shall give up some of their national sovereignty to a world organization. Raw materials, etc., shall be used for the good of all instead the benefit of a few. These three points may seem commonplace today, but think back no further than 1939 and try to imagine student delegates from a great majority of the nations of the world including the United States, agreeing...
Even though the credo had been a complete failure, the Conference would have been worth-while. For, in the cause of international understanding and good will, at least as much was accomplished by informal conversation over meals, in the lobbies, and wherever delegates came together, as in the formal sessions, perhaps even more. Julia C. Deaue, Radcliffe '44. (Delegate of The Student League of America to the International Student Conference...