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...current "Harpers," Dean Wallace Brett Donham of the Business School surveys "The College in a Changing World" and finds only one thing to commend--the fact that the war has cut the college period to three years. Most students will agree that shortening their training period without lowering standards and requirements is to the good. As Dean Donham points out, even the student who must earn his expenses will gain since he can now hold a year-round...
When the Dean insists that more "common sense, teamwork, and leadership" should be taught, students will nod to the familiar platitudes. But when Dean Donham demands vocational training in the colleges, his failure to comprehend the true function of a liberal arts college in a modern democracy is revealed...
...Dean Donham praises President Conant's heavy concentration in chemistry as an undergraduate. As a result, President Conant passed his Ph.D. in two years. Agreed, this was excellent training for a professional chemist. But the reason that James B. Conant devoted several years to the study of poison gas rather than something more productive can be blamed on the many men throughout the world with the same idea as Dean Donham--the idea that it is not the duty of colleges to help men think their way through a difficult world by a process of mental development and broad acquaintanceship...
When Dean Donham declares that "the collapse of the old Germany was hastened by the inability of university-trained men to fit themselves into the economic life of the community," he forgets that the chief reason most Germans couldn't find work and finally took to the swastika is that the rest of the world was so blinded by nationalism as to turn central Europe into an impossible mess, and so stupid as to bring their own countries to the verge of revolt in the Great Depression...
Wallace B. Donham, Dean of the Business School, who issued invitations to both the labor and government representatives to attend the conference, has had the full cooperation of the labor unions and the Federal Government in organizing the discussions...