Word: banker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special field the banker-professor will occupy a position analogous to that of a William James in psychology, of an Agassiz in natural history or a Lowell in literature. Will authorities in other lines of business, specialists in oil and in steel, be engaged in time as the industrial development of the higher education goes on? For the perfect balance of the curriculum, the services of a professor of other forms of finance, a "wolf of Wall Street" experienced in stock manipulation and pool operation, might be enlisted...
...Vanderlip has an international reputation as a banker and a business man. He was born at Aurora, Illinois, in 1964; studied at the University of Illinois and University of Chicago; began work as a reporter on the Chicago "Tribune"; served later as financial editor of the "Tribune", as associate editor of the "Economist", as private secretary to Secretary of the Treasury Gage, and finally, under President McKinley, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
...adopt all the suggestions made to it. So some men are bound to be disappointed. But they shouldn't be discouraged. The trouble with most criticism of our colleges is that the man who offers it looks at the institution from an entirely individualistic standpoint. If he's a banker he wants it to turn out capable bankers; if a manufacturer he wants industrial experts; if an editor he wants 99 per cent completed reporters. And so on down the long list. All the while it is forgotten that the college is the most gigantic factory on earth...
...Thursday, March 18, Frank A. Vanderlip, former president of the National City Bank of New York, will speak at the Union on "America's Financial Obligations." Mr. Vanderlip is internationally known as a banker and has been at the peace conference...