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...Dean Donham's Speech...
...Dean Donham discussed particularly the failure of business and political leadership to assume the new responsibilities created by this unprecedented calamity. He found the reason for this mainly in the overspecialized organization of our society...
President Lowell presided, and the invocation was given by William Lawrence '71, bishop of Massachusetts. The opening address was delivered by Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, president of Dartmouth College, whose subject was "Unity as an Educational Ideal." He was followed by W. B. Donham '98, dean of the Business School, discussing "The Failure of Business Leadership and the Responsibility of the Universities...
...Business School assemble in the Memorial Church at 8 o'clock. President Lowell will preside at the exercises, and after an invocation by Bishop William Lawrence '71, Dr. E. M. Hopkins, president of Dartmouth College, will address those assembled on "Unity as an Educational Ideal." W. B. Donham '99, dean of the Business School, will deliver the final address of the evening on "The Failure of Business Leadership and the Responsibility of the Universities...
From this time on, the role of the Business School must be a larger and a more responsible one. To study the technique of an industrial system which has shown its utter unfitness for any enlightened country, will not in the future be enough. Dean Donham, himself a leading advocate of voluntary planning, is under no delusions on this point. "The larger task ahead," he says in his latest report, "is the training of men for the kind of administrative responsibility which . . . recognized business not alone as an aggregation of specialities, or even as a unity which can be thought...