Word: donham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dean Donham's address to second-year men of the Business School yesterday, expressing as it did the optimistic prediction that practically all of this year's graduating class will be placed in jobs by the School employment bureau, bears definite indication of the importance now laid on professionalized training. A second conclusion is that there is a need today for highly trained men at a time when business in general is dull. Present conditions of course influence the number of employment opportunities; and yet the general trend toward specialized business training is of longer standing than the present slump...
...fact that the Business School can assure its second-year class of positions after graduation is not necessarily indicative of any demand for highly trained executives in the business world today. Dean Donham urges men to accept the positions as offered, foregoing hopes and ambitions for high salaries. But it Business School men, trained two years longer than college graduates, are being urged to content themselves with modest positions, men unable to do graduate work must look forward to an uninspiring future...
...There will be practically no change this year in the usual number or quality of business positions secured for the members of the graduating class at the Business School," said W. B. Donham '98, dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, in a speech before 200 second-year graduates in the Baker Library yesterday afternoon...
...Because of the depression, however, it will be necessary that students make every effort to find positions independently of the School employment bureau, and that they make rapid decisions concerning their acceptance or rejection of jobs offered them through the bureau," continued Dean Donham...
Plans for the new third year of study and research at the Business School, advocated by Dean Donham in his annual report to President Lowell, have been set forth in a pamphlet just published, entitled "Looking Ahead in Business Education." The project has received official approval and will be put into effect as soon as funds are available...