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...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...
...disagreement over technicalities and desire to continue the individual traditions. The Forum believed that while the functions of the Illustrated differ from those of the other magazines, personal differences and trivial points in regard to the make-up of a general-literary publication could be over-looked in a wide-spread movement to relieve of their present burden the advertisers and subscribers. The result of this discussion was a resolution asking the publication committee of the Student Council, composed of the presidents of the magazines, to draw up plans for a union of at least two of the papers...
...American universities to the advancement of the welfare of the people. In the field of government, to use Harvard as an example, the fruits of co-operation between theorists and administrators have been large. In the settlement of tariff questions the work of Harvard professors has been of wide-spread influence and has directed the stream of public opinion into channels leading to scientific analysis and reasonable adjustment. The contributions of the Medical School to the science of preventive medicine and the important discoveries following medical research illustrate amply that the University comprehends the problems of the community and extends...
...understand those neighbors themselves and the recent development of their lands. In view of this, it is no slight privilege to hear so distinguished a son of Latin America as the Brazilian Minister present the subject to us in our own tongue. The interest in his address should be wide-spread...
...graded according of different standards to be compared in the award of distinction? Nominally, one man may make a scholarship record far better than another, yet the latter may have done work o equally good quality, or in some cases even better. Consequently there has developed the wide-spread conviction that marks are a false measure of ability and merit...