Word: swope
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particularly fortunate that the Committee on Choice of Vocations has been able to arrange for a lecture on business by Mr. Gerard Swope. The General Electric Company of which Mr. Swope is president has perhaps more than any other great corporation interested itself in the problem of fitting college graduates for positions in the business and engineering world, as witnessed by its maintianance of elaborate training courses. The results of these endeavors should offer a reliable index to the problems facing the present graduating class. And Mr. Swope himself has had a range of business training and experience which will...
...term "business" covers practically the whole range of vocations pursued by college graduates. But its very generality makes it vague; and the undergraduate who attempts to plan his college studies with a view to a future life in business finds a standard of necessary preparation difficult to define. Mr. Swope's lecture, therefore, will undoubtedly prove of very definite service to those who are frankly puzzled by the problem of linking a general education to the specific requirements of a business career...
...second of a series of vocational talks arranged by the Committee on the Choice of Vocations will be given by Mr. Gerard Swope, President of the General Electric Company, who will speak on "Business as a Career" tonight at 7.30 in the Living Room of the Union. The meeting is open to members of the University and their guests...
...Swope is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was formerly vice-president of the Western Electric Company in charge of sales. While touring the Orient recently on sales work for that corporation he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan. In the spring of 1922 he was appointed President of the General Electric Company...
...connection with the lecture on "Business" by Mr. Gerard Swope Thursday evening, the Committee on the Choice of Vocations announced conferences yesterday for students interested in business as a career. Mr. A. M. White '92, formerly of White Weld Company of New York, and at present a candidate for overseer of the University will be available for conference at the Union on Friday between 10 and 18 o'clock in the morning and 2 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Efforts are being made to secure several other...