Word: donham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snobbishness. Hidebound conservatives in the field of education refused to see in a graduate school for the training of business men anything more than another novelty which would perish at its first encounter with the "cold, cruel world" of business itself. Even now, many professors continue to regard Mr. Donham and his staff as coming from the "wrong side of the Charles River...
Experience has allayed all doubts concerning the advantages of a Business School training. Important corporations have been willing, and even anxious, to place the graduates recommended by Dean Donham. These apprentices have since shown their superiority over the untrained business man, and many now occupy high positions in the commercial life of the country. In addition to placing its graduates, the business men showed once again their confidence in the school, when this summer, after a lapse of four years, a special session for business executives was held...
Dinner will be served in the Eliot House dining room at a charge of $2.50. Dean Wallace B. Donham will preside at a smoker following dinner. Speeches will be by Dr. Douglas Copland on "Economic Policy in a Depression," and Honorable Paul Reynaud on "Recent European Financial Development...
...Sperry finds 100% employment of his graduates, Professor Menhinick of the Regional Planning Department of the School of Design discovers not only full employment, but an unsurfeited demand for more technicians, Dean Hudnut of the School of Design writes in this issue in a generally favorable manner, and Dean Donham of the Business School finds 90% employment of his graduates throughout the depression. These reports are highly significant and especially Dean Donham's, whose position makes him uniquely qualified to feel the pulse of business activity...
Included among the list of speakers are: President Conant: Wallace B. Donham '98, Dean of the Business School; commissioner William O. Douglas of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Leon C. Marshall '04, of the Division of Review of the N. R. A.: Dr. Willard Thorp, formerly Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce; and Dean Everett W. Lord of Boston University...