Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since at least one, perhaps both of the graduate secretaryships of the Union will be vacant next year, the Governing Board of the Union yesterday called for applications for the position. The position calls for the handling of all of the social affairs of the Union and of arranging the calendar for all these events...
Harvard has long been considered the center of tradition, and as it becomes necessary to replace these customs for the sake of greater efficiency, there is always much lamentation on the part of those who have been brought up in them. The Governing Board of the Union has now decided to change the present system of employing Graduate Secretaries as managers to that of having one professional to assume that position. In addition to that, this new office will not necessarily be filled by a Harvard graduate. Such a complete change from the system...
...situation is considered from the point of view of the Governing Board of the Union, it is evident that this new system will make it possible to increase the efficiency in management. The fault of the present practice is not with the Graduate Secretaries, but with their other activities, which necessarily prevent them from devoting a sufficient amount of their time to the affairs of the Union. The new manager will be confined to one field, and will thus be able to be of greater use in his position. The traditions of the past may be destroyed but the increasing...
Another example of two birds of different banking feather flocking together was furnished by last week's merging of Central Union Trust and Hanover National. Central Union handles more than a billion dollars in its' personal trust department, aside from its corporate trusts. Hanover National has been known as a "bankers' bank," being depository and correspondent for many an out-of-town institution. President of the merged institution (which will probably be called Central-Hanover) will be George Willets Davison,† Central Union president. Chairman of the Board will be William Woodward, Hanover president. Central-Hanover will...
...Long Island, in 1872, graduated from Wesleyan (Phi' Beta Kappa) in 1892, received New York University LL. B. in 1894. In 1899 he was Queens County District Attorney; in 1900 served as secretary of a committee formed to revise the charter of Greater New York. He became Central Union's vice president at the time of the 1918 merger and in 1919 succeeded to the presidency upon the death of James N. Wallace...