Word: donham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration today is a monument to 23 successful years' direction by Dean Wallace Brett Donham. It can count a faculty to match its impressive buildings, a business library second to none, an enrollment of over 1,000 U.S. businessmen-to-be. Most other business schools, including the famed London School of Economics, have patterned themselves on Dean Donham's model...
...years there, Dean Donham has seen and made many changes. In 1919 Harvard's Graduate School of Business consisted of 19 students (some under-graduate), a bookkeepers' curriculum, no classrooms of its own, no library, no prestige. It accurately reflected the low esteem accorded to business by U.S. educators generally. In that year, memorable for its epidemic of violent strikes, Harvard's President A. Lawrence Lowell handed over the Business School to a chubby, 41-year-old Yankee, Wallace Donham. Commented one professor on the decrepit state of the school: "We were a faculty of crocks teaching...
Adapting to his needs the case method of law and medical schools, Dean Donham steadily shifted the emphasis of his school from applied business economics to practical business administration. By the middle '30s business' growing emphasis on enlightened management had amply demonstrated his prescience. War brought out another example of the Dean's foresight: having long trained a group of Army officers assigned each year to the School, Harvard Business professors were well prepared last fall to start the first U.S. school for Army quartermasters...
Meanwhile Dean Donham has never ceased hammering on the "human factor in business." His humanism went well beyond how-to-win-friends- & -influence-peo-ple; one of his well-heeded friends was Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead...
...rapidly becoming the fashion of the times in colleges like Harvard to speculate upon the future of a liberal education beneath the pressure of a specialized society. The war, of course, has intensified such speculation. President Conant, ex-Dean Donham, numerous other authorities and experts, and Mrs. Roosevelt have taken a whack at the problem. One of the most recent, as well as one of the best whacks, was taken by the Student Council Committee on Curriculum and Tenure in yesterday's report. Yet from all these source a common danger begins to become apparent. The battle of words...