Word: donham
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Business School assemble in the Memorial Church at 8 o'clock. President Lowell will preside at the exercises, and after an invocation by Bishop William Lawrence '71, Dr. E. M. Hopkins, president of Dartmouth College, will address those assembled on "Unity as an Educational Ideal." W. B. Donham '99, dean of the Business School, will deliver the final address of the evening on "The Failure of Business Leadership and the Responsibility of the Universities...
From this time on, the role of the Business School must be a larger and a more responsible one. To study the technique of an industrial system which has shown its utter unfitness for any enlightened country, will not in the future be enough. Dean Donham, himself a leading advocate of voluntary planning, is under no delusions on this point. "The larger task ahead," he says in his latest report, "is the training of men for the kind of administrative responsibility which . . . recognized business not alone as an aggregation of specialities, or even as a unity which can be thought...
Sounding a call for business leaders with understanding of the economic system and its social relationships, W. B. Donham '98, dean of the Business School, in his annual report to the president, made public yesterday, outlines a new and broader approach to business problems which the School is expected to pursue. Dean Donham cites over-specialization as an important cause of the current economic collapse, and voices the intention of the School to concentrate study to an increasing extent on the general problems of business...
...other sections of the report Dean Donham discusses the work in industrial physiology carried on by the Fatigue Laboratory of the School, the success of Morgan Hall last year in securing positions for members of the graduating class, and the curtailment of research due to the depression. Lest the School appear to be in competition with welfare and relief drives, no contributions were asked for last year from the 250 Associates, who usually give $1,000 each annually...
Since the announcement six weeks ago by the Business School that it would have an extra session beginning January 30, 1933, more than 250 men have made inquiries concerning the scope of the new plan. According to W. B. Donham '98, dean of the School, the letters of inquiry represent a nation wide interest. Many have come to the school to discuss the new course which will be a comprehensive arrangement of the regular first year curriculum...