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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present condition of the Business School is intolerable except as a temporary makeshift. We need funds at once for the construction of buildings to house a School of 1,000 and to develop laboratory facilities...
Since its birth the School had been located entirely north of the Charles, shaving "every week and cranny"-as Dean David puts if today-with the rest of the University. The library occupied part of the top floor of Widener, and classes and offices were sprinkled in Yard buildings, museums, the Unions basement, Lawrence Hall, and University Hall...
...late William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts, the campaign was unexpectedly concluded in little more than a month when the late George F. Baker, chairman of the First National Bank of New York, wrote the University offering $5,000,000 if he could "have the privilege of building the whole school...
Alone Baker gave the School grounds as excellent as those of any other graduate school in the country, for his funds bought every permanent building that now stands across the river, including towered Baker Library. In 1925 he added an extra $1,000,000 to his gift when it appeared the original $5,000,000 was going to run out; and only last year an additional $500,000 was received from Baker's estate to keep facilities up to date...
...waiting for the completion of the buildings, Donham had meanwhile been working on his second, goal, that of "expanding laboratory facilities." By 1927 when the grounds were dedicated, eight intensive years of visiting business plants bad blossomed into almost 6,000 case studies. School researchers have kept the case stocks "active" by constantly watching and visiting business to gain not only new case situations but evidence of outdated situations as well...