Word: swope
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among those who have accepted are: Thomas W. Lamont '92, George W. Wickersham, Dr. George E. Brewer '85, Henry W. Taft, Dr. Charles H. Herty, Robert W. DeForest, Newcomb Carlton '17, H. Bayard Swope, John H. Finley, Arthur M. Howe, Kent Cooper, and Sidney E. Mezes...
...There are a large number of unsolved problems in business today, and these very facts make for the opportunities of tomorrow," said Mr. Gerard Swope, president of the General Electric Company speaking on "Business as a Career" at the Union last night in the second of the vocational talks...
Before reaching his discussion of business as we understand it today, Mr. Swope traced the growth of industry and trade. The first thing that prompted business was service. "Men", he said, "exchanged products to save time, and to save labor. Then as communities grew, matters became more complex. You first had the country stores, which were finally grouped together into larger unions. Then came the chain stores, and our large department stores. Now our cities have grown so rapidly that the status of economic conditions has not kept pace with them, for the waste in the distribution of food products...
...Swope, like all successful business men, is of the opinion that the best results come from methods of fair-dealing, and there was a note of this spirit in his final words. "If you go forth with the ideal that Harvard holds aloft to you in its motto of 'Veritas', it seems to me that you will carry a message to the community, that is worth while carrying and which, in the doing, will give you a great deal of satisfaction...
Supplementing Mr. Swope's lecture, the Committee has secured Mr. F. H. Curtiss '91, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and Mr. A. M. White '92, formerly of White, Weld and Company of New York, to hold conferences with any men in the University who wish to consult them...