Word: objects
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...unfamiliar with the real situation and these receptions are provided to avoid such delusions. The unsolicited halo which in the past has surrounded the House and the men who have had interests there is being worn off a little more each year and the tendency to shy at any object or being associated with Brooks House is no longer evident. The reason is that men have been made to appreciate the value of the work undertaken there and the necessity of its being carried forward in our community as it is in all moral and progressive societies, with the result...
...Arts and Sciences may be drawn upon for advanced instruction in such fields as geography, mathematics, or engineering, whenever these subjects are shown to have an important bearing on the student's ultimate line of business. Courses in French, German, and Spanish Correspondence will be offered with the special object of enabling graduates of the School to read and write letters in these languages and to understand the accepted forms of business correspondence. Students who pass in the first year's work in Commercial Law will be admitted to courses in the Law of Sales, Agency, Insurance, Admiralty, Quasi-Contracts...
...most important features of the School will be the practical work required of each student in the summer. The object of this work will be two-fold, first, to teach the students from practical experience and observation the elements of business that cannot be taught in the class-room, and secondly, to bring them in contact with the men with whom their life work is to be done. Incidentally the summer work will be useful in accustoming every student to the rough work and routine through which, if at all, his university training may enable him to rise. The School...
...text-book loan library, which is in its second year, has proved very successful. The object is to help men of small means by loaning them the books needed; in their courses. There were many demands for books not in the library, however, and a large number will still be needed to make the collection complete. Over 300 books have been added this year, given by members of the University, making a total of 700. Sixty-three men have made use of the library and 280 books have been loaned...
Next year the University will open the Graduate School of Business Administration to which college graduates only will be admitted as regular students. The object of the school is to fit men for business careers, and especially to equip the most capable men for advancement to posts of responsibility and leadership. It is proposed, in other words, to furnish a professional foundation for business analogous to that which the Law School and the Medical School furnish for their respective professions...