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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...secretaries of chambers of commerce into its curriculum for the year 1913-14. The special training designed will be an entirely new experiment in education and is planned to fill a need which has sprung up with the increased activity of chambers of commence, boards of trade, and similar bodies in all parts of the country...
...planned, the courses will give to college graduates a well-rounded training in preparation for almost any type of business activity and to that will add special training in practical experience of Chamber of Commerce operation, which will be secured in connection with the Boston Chamber of Commerce and similar bodies in this vicinity. The Boston Chamber has pledged its support, and work is now in progress in securing the co-operation of other bodies and in finding openings in which the men taking the course can have actual practice under working conditions...
...experiment in education is to be undertaken by the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in the adoption of a line of special training, designed to train young men for the work of secretaries of chambers of commerce and similar voluntary trade bodies. Recently there has been a wide-spread movement in this country to form local chambers of commerce and boards of trade and to revive the activity of those already existing. The establishment of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America has given these organizations a forward impulse, and it is because of this development...
...department of the University is rapidly pushing its influence into all the phases of business enterprise and training increasing numbers for the profession. It is pleasing to note that in the new work to be attempted the Business School will co-operate with the Boston Chamber of Commerce and similar bodies in the immediate vicinity. Close contact between the school and the business community will not only be of great value to students, but will give the institution a larger sphere of influence...
...speaker strongly encouraged the similar venture at Harvard, and noted how it could help to support scientific study. A large part of the work of such an institution must be the printing of special volumes which a publisher cannot handle properly