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...finish their college courses in the middle of the academic year a chance to begin their business training at once, the Business School will adopt experimentally this year a new policy of admitting a limited group of carefully selected college graduates on January 30, 1922, Dean Wallace B. Donham '98, has announced...
...This plan is distinctly an experiment," explained Dean Donham. "Two years ago we allowed a few unusually able students to enter in the middle of the year, with very satisfactory results, but we have never admitted any considerable number at that time. Whether we shall ultimately have two groups in the School, one shift entering in September and the other in January, depends on the working of this experiment. It is entirely possible, for our larger courses are already divided into sections, and it may prove as convenient to start some sections in September and others in January...
...Pollak Foundation resembles the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations, but is confined to research and education along economic lines. The following have been appointed by the Foundation to judge the essays: W. B. Donham '99, Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration: Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics at Yale; and W. C. Mitchell, Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research...
...attitude of the School toward schouarship, Dean Donham said, is to see that the student not only gets the information given out in the various courses but gets it in a thorough and satisfactory...
Concerning securing regular employment, Dean Donham said, the Business School backs to the limit men who are above the average in their class. But last year there was such a demand all over the country for men in the upper third of the class that the men in this division had no difficulty in securing positions suited to them...