Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students were for the most part rich young men who came to learn how to manage their private property. But as the complexity and salaries of U. S. business management increased, so did the demand of young men and women for training to set them on the road to wealth. Today some 80 universities have schools of business administration with over 100,000 students preparing to be junior executives, accountants, government administrators, lawyers, teachers...
...President submits to the Congress an annual budget-a budget which, by the way, we expect to have definitely balanced by the next fiscal year. . . . Instead of spending, as some nations do, half their national income in piling up armaments ... we in America are wiser in using our wealth on projects like this which will give us more wealth, better living and greater happiness for our children." He ended his address by saying: "I'm going to press a button and that will set everything going." He pressed, flood-lamps lighted on the speaker's stand. Bonneville...
...Harvard the significance of such reforms lies in the fact that the Debating Council has recognized two elemental characteristics of human nature; that every man is a debater at heart, but that he is likewise apt to be bound by inertia. It has announced a plan whereby the inexhaustible wealth of government and philosophy section orators may be brought within the scope of organized debating. It has seen in the breasts of many men in the impersonal public speaking courses a burning desire to take part in organized debating. It has realized that it can offer a laboratory course...
There is now a wealth of information on file in the Placement Office from employers all over the country, with detailed descriptions of the positions available, training school data, type of men wanted, and the like. In addition, the Placement Office has issued a most valuable pamphlet, in all probability the first of its kind, containing a discussion of the general problem of placing seniors, with a statement of the things an employer is looking for and how well a Harvard education meets his demands...
...Institutions at which Common-wealth fellows studied...