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...Dean Donham's address to second-year men of the Business School yesterday, expressing as it did the optimistic prediction that practically all of this year's graduating class will be placed in jobs by the School employment bureau, bears definite indication of the importance now laid on professionalized training. A second conclusion is that there is a need today for highly trained men at a time when business in general is dull. Present conditions of course influence the number of employment opportunities; and yet the general trend toward specialized business training is of longer standing than the present slump...
...fact that the Business School can assure its second-year class of positions after graduation is not necessarily indicative of any demand for highly trained executives in the business world today. Dean Donham urges men to accept the positions as offered, foregoing hopes and ambitions for high salaries. But it Business School men, trained two years longer than college graduates, are being urged to content themselves with modest positions, men unable to do graduate work must look forward to an uninspiring future...
Plans for the new third year of study and research at the Business School, advocated by Dean Donham in his annual report to President Lowell, have been set forth in a pamphlet just published, entitled "Looking Ahead in Business Education." The project has received official approval and will be put into effect as soon as funds are available...
Highly academic and to a large degree unworkable is Dean Donham's remedy for the economic chaos which has brought about the present depression. In his new book "Business looks at the Unforeseen," Mr. Donham suggests that economic planning be done by a "central thinking agency." Unfortunately, it would be only an advisory body to whisper in the ear of Big Business. Ideal as this method might seem to the magnate, history and experience surely point out that an advisory agency could never win enough support by gentle suasion to untangle the knots with which conflicting interests bind the commerce...
...before our business leaders realize that we cannot add to the world's disaster without including Injury upon ourselves?", S. H. Slichter, professor of Business Economics, presents in the latest issue of "Current History" a point of view on the tariff question opposed to that of Dean W. B. Donham '08, and of Senator Reed smooth...