Word: trading
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...only within the last 25 years that college men have turned in large numbers to business life on graduation, and even at the present time few of them engage in retail trade. Though in recent graduating classes at Harvard more than one-half of the members have announced their intention of going into "business," they usually enter manufacturing, wholesale trading, or some form of banking. The evolution of the department store, involving the centralization under a single management of many operations of trade and manufacturing, is a development of the present which has raised the retail business to the dignity...
This evening in the Union there will be a description of "Retail Trade as a Career for College Graduates" by Mr. Robert C. Ogden, for many years a partner in one of the greatest retail firms of the country and the manager of one of its large branches. Men who have not chosen their occupations and who feel no inclination toward the so called learned professions, should find his lecture distinctly useful...
...Bliss (2 lectures): The value and use of trade-marks and their relation to advertising and selling. The control of sales through widely separated stores or branches...
...James O. Fagan (2 lectures): The limitations on management by trade organizations and by other factors. The limitations on workmen's efficiency by trade organizations...
...portrait of a princess whom the Queen desires to see married to the Prince of Wales. The latter is momentarily expected to arrive at Berlin and is preceded by an ambassador, from whom the Prince of Baireuth discovers that the entire plan of the marriage is part of a trade between the two countries. This news he communicates to the princess, who is being held under strict surveillance for having disobeyed orders and for having secretly received the Frenchman. Intrigue follows intrigue with rapid action introducing several humorous complications, until finally the prince is banished from Berlin. His friend...