Word: donham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dean Donham states that more than twenty of the universities and colleges of the country, including most of the larger institutions, have new well organized courses or departments for the teaching of business. "The enrollment of all the collegiate business schools in the country prior to 1910 was so small that it was a negligible factor in our educational system," reports Mr. Donham. "After that year there was a considerable growth, but the striking increase is literally in the academic year 1919-20. Several of the leading schools this year had entering classes from 50 to 100 percent larger than...
Calling attention to the tremendous increase in size of the undergraduate business schools of the United States during the past two years, and to the competition to which these schools are subjecting the older four-year liberal arts course, Dean Wallace Brett Donham '99, of the Graduate School of Business Administration, says in his annual report, made public today, that "the future integrity of the old-fashioned college courses depends to an extent little realized" upon graduate school of business, such as that at the University...
...Dean Donham stated that the inadequate housing of the Graduate School of Business Administration, its limited endowment, and its rapid growth will probably make it necessary in the near future to limit the number of students admitted to the School. "The alternative", he continued, "would be a reduction in educational standards. It will be, however, a source of most serious regret if the opportunity here given to college graduates to lesson the difficulties of the transition from college to business must be long denied to any properly prepared candidates...
...report Dean Donham discusses at length the development of the problem method of instruction in the school, which is similar to the case system of study originated at Harvard and employed now in most law schools, and also emphasizes the new five-year program in engineering administration which is being jointly conducted by the Business School and the Harvard Engineering School
...Dean Donham states that more than twenty of the universities and colleges of the country, including most of the larger institutions, have new well organized courses or departments for the teaching of business. "The enrollment of all the collegiate business schools in the country prior to 1910 was so small that it was a negligible factor in our educational system," reports Mr. Donham. "After that year there was a considerable growth, but the striking increase is literally in the academic year 1919-20. Several of the leading schools this year had entering classes from 50 to 100 percent larger than...