Word: donham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opening its activities across the Charles for this year, the Business School Students' Club will hold its annual smoker and reception for first year men in the reading room of Baker Library at 8 o'clock this evening. President Lowell and W. B. Donham '98, dean of the Business School, will greet the new students and speak upon some aspects of the University and the School...
...Dean Donham...
Yesterday Dean Donham of the Harvard Business School suggested in a radio address two methods of attacking the economic distress of the country. Unemployment the Dean would sweep away by dividing available work among all the men fit for positions. The basic cause of business depression, maladjustment, would be taken care of by a permanently established national planning board. These ideas are not new, but they have hitherto been considered radical, indeed socialistic, and it is a surprising indication of the progress of the times to hear them from the Dean of a Harvard graduate school...
...better times are to return permanently, and employees are to be assured of their jobs, rational planning of the type recommended by Dean Donham should be adopted. The madcap antidotes to end depression tried in the past three years, the buying campaigns and bonus crusades, are symptoms of the irrational attitude toward the crash. Neither witchcraft nor behavioristic psychology cured economic ills. Since this depression is largely the result of factors which could have been brought altogether under control, the suggestion that a national planning board could restore prosperity is attractively rational...
...first of the series of gatherings sponsored annually by the Business School Students' Club, a smoker for first year men has been scheduled for the evening of Thursday, Sept. 29 in the Reading Room of Baker Library. President Lowell and Dean Donham will deliver welcoming addresses to the approximately 500 first year men who are expected to attend. J. N. Valianos 2GB, president of the Business School club, will preside at the meeting...