Word: donham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colleges and graduate schools throughout the country will have to adjust themselves to new conditions arising from the disappearance of large private fortunes and the weakening of the nation's middle class, Dean Wallace B. Donham of the Business School said yesterday in his annual report...
...report, which reviewed the war programs at the Business School and the special defense research now being conducted there for the army, Dean Donham said that he welcomed the emergency as an opportunity for experimenting along lines "which are already indicated by certain marked social and economic trends...
...Large fortunes, for example, are rapidly disappearing," Dean Donham said. "The middle class is far weaker than it was 12 years ago. It will not be able to support as long or as expensive education in the future as in the past 30 years...
...Dean Donham's "practical skills" have an important place in preparing a man for making his living anywhere in the world--here or in Nazi Europe. But mere technical skill and ability to cooperate with other technicians is scarcely sufficient intellectual background for the average men, let alone potential leaders, in a modern democracy...
...goal of preparing their graduates for intelligent participation in a democratic community. Like almost every one, they have taken what little democracy we have had without enough inspection and too much for granted. But there is a vast difference between their goal of a firmly based democracy and Dean Donham's goal of technical efficiency--a difference so vast that the world is at war because...