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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teachers who were called upon to find the answer to the demand of business, to give classroom expression to vague aspirations, the first and, indeed, the abiding question was. What is essential to be taught, and how can it be taught? Among the confusing array of business activities which must somehow be constrained within courses of instruction, where should emphasis be laid? If business itself answers "Marketing," or "Factory Production," or, if more inclusively, it answers "Management," and there should be no academic equipment in these fields, what should be done? What shifts and devices, what combinations of planning...
...education, were seeking business careers, where only a generation ago they were entering the older professions. There was dawning for business--and those who stood highest saw it--the day of systematized teaching of business principles and practice, just as earlier the same experience had come to accounting, the first business profession, to engineers, lawyers, doctors and clergymen. And if knowledge is to be systematized and taught, it must be made open and accessible. This logical corollary, not at first fully perceived by business men, with their jealous traditions of secrecy, was of necessity emphasized, though with caution...
...someone else had "broken them in." A number conceded that a collegiate business school might impart some useful knowledge but it could not train executives. Business executives we were told, like Michel Angelos and Shakespeares, are born, not made. I remember well a question put to me, in the first year of the school, by one of these skeptical visitors. He was as it happened, a firm believer in West Point methods. "What, apart from mere technical knowledge, readily acquired and honesty, much more common than is sometimes thought are the qualities requisite for success in business?" I told...
This morning's registration in the Business School launches the University upon its two hundred and ninety-fourth year. Registration for Freshmen in the College begins tomorrow morning, and the first-year men in the Engineering School and the Medical School will register at the same time. The various other departments of the University begin their registration on Saturday or on Monday, and the enrollment of students will be brought to a close in all departments on Monday...
Classes for the first year students will begin Monday, while the second-year students gather on Tuesday for the first time. Applications for meals close at five o'clock on Monday...