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...changed into a Graduate School of Business Administration. Most Harvardmen felt then that the nation's service offered too few opportunities for college-trained men, thought that they could better bend their efforts toward "making private business a profession." Under the deanship of rotund, bald, energetic Wallace Brett Donham, Harvard's Business School became in the 1920'$ big and proud and potent. Depression sobered the Business School. Depression, too, brought the New Deal and the New Deal created a host of new opportunities. Last week Harvard's President James Bryant Conant publicly picked up, where President...
...Dean Donham's Business School will henceforth be a "school of public and private business." Last week it enrolled its initial batch of public business students in a special session which begins at midyear. The first regular class enters next autumn. Public business students live, study, eat, go to many of their classes with future vice presidents of business houses. When they, get through they will be fitted for jobs with such governmental business ventures as the Tennessee Valley Authority, such financial agencies as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, such regulatory bodies as the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...Dean Donham in his annual report to the President laid great stress upon the function of the Business School as a training ground for government administrators. Scoring the lack of equipment among officials today and the over-specialization in individual fields, he stated that the Business School "must become a School of public as well as private business...
With the over-growing participation of the government in business and the close inter-relationship between the two the need for trained experts is greater than over before in the history of our country. Dean Donham's recognition of the problem is timely and his intention of adapting the curriculum to present-day social needs should be encouraged and carried out. Too few men are prepared to carry on the work of public administration and in the past the civil service has not attracted men of the best ability. Were the government to be run on the same efficient basis...
...they seem to think, the "average Harvard opinion," this opinion should either be proved correct and steps be taken to alleviate the situation they describe, or it should be shown up as false and be dismissed once and for all. To start with, let them read over Mr. Donham's letter again, if mine is too long for them. Let them remember that this contains truth gained from first-hand observation, personal contacts, and that word which means so little to them, "experience." Let them consider well if their original statements were not gathered from erroneous newspaper articles, remarks...