Word: professionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Far from its humble beginnings in 1908 the Graduate School of Business Administration finds itself today in a position rich not only in its unparalleled facilities and prestige but in the brilliant tradition of its social and economic service to the nation. The opening of another term in this succession...
...terms the progress which the School has made in putting business training on a parity with that of any other profession. The vision of the early founders clearly saw the importance to society of business leaders bred not alone in the school of experience, but in an institution where professional traditions leave their stamp. It is this, perhaps, this new emphasis on the professional standing and obligation of the business man, that stands out as one of the greatest accomplishments of the School's first twenty one years...
...than President Eliot had expected, but he was satisfied with its progress, and President Lowell, who from the beginning had been deeply interested, declared an end to the period of experiment by his act in establishing it as an independent faculty, with an organization like that of the other professional schools of the university. But the steady increase in numbers of students brought new and pressing problems, which, when Dean Donham took over the leadership, had become formidable. The growth of the institution demanded urgently a great expansion in physical and personnel equipment. These serious difficulties have been overcome with...
...gradually becoming more willing to share their knowledge. Trade associations were proliferating and they were busy in formulating codes of ethics. Business men were enjoying in the United States the esteem and respect paid to a high social class. These are the signs of an emerging profession, and the professional school, at once a result and a cause of the transformation had reason to believe itself a stable institution and to set its standards high...
Because the profession as well as the laity has a fuzzy conception of what a chronic disease is, there exist only two special private hospitals for chronic diseases in the U. S.-Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases in New York City and Robert Breck Brigham Hospital in Boston. Last week...