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...list of speaker prominent in business and economic research will lead the discussion at the fifth annual conference of the Harvard Committee of Economics Research, which began last night with a meeting at the Hotel Somerset and which continues with a series of meetings today...
...conference is a national gathering of subscribers to the Harvard Economis Service, which is directed by the Committee of Economic Research. This service was established several years ago to conduct investigation and research in business, indutrial and economic fields and publish its findings in bulletins for subscribers to the service...
...aggregate sales of the firms reporting to the Harvard Bureau in the four trades that are now appropriating funds for its research--three retail and one wholesale--last year totaled more than one billion dollars. Already this year more than twenty-seven hundred problems have been collected, on labor, factory management, advertising, retail-store practice, banking, foreign trade, etc. Doctor Copeland says that the difference between busines and law is that law is six hundred years ahead of business in recording decisions. But the University workers are confident that as we go along further it will be found that investigators...
...bury themselves in their studies can hardly be applied with aptness to the students in theories of the present day. The appeal of the Concord sage has been heard and answered, at least by those professors of the University who make up the Harvard Committee on Economic Research...
...relatively valueless in fitting him to meet actual business conditions; and that these courses are at best only theoretical, while what he really needs is Hard Experience. This may be true; but if it is, the success which has attended the efforts of the Harvard Committee on Economic Research remains to be explained...