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Everybody in the University knows more or less about the Graduate School of Business Administration but few realize the scope of its work or the extent of its research. Dean W. B. Donham became head of the school after having been associated with the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston for 15 years. He installed the now famous "case system" of teaching business administration through the actual study and solving of the problems of working concerns. In its search for suitable problems a subsidiary organization of the Business School was established. This was the Harvard Bureau of Business Research...
...fact that many prominent business men from all over the country have been sufficiently interested to give access to their files to the Bureau of Business Research as a source of teaching material suggests the place that organization must hold in the minds of the leaders of industry...
...educational ideals, but it does afford a new field for their development. If it is the function of a university to diffuse knowledge and culture, a method of direct teaching by the extension system may reach the older generation more effectively than does the publication of a scholarly historical research. The degree of A. A. is not to be ridiculed...
Sometime ago money was given to the department to buy a quarry suitable for research and last summer an additional contribution enabled Professor Charles Palache to obtain quarry rights on a large ledge of granite in Greenwood Maine. K. K. Landis 3G, started work early in the summer with two miners and blasted hundreds of tons of rock all of which had to be examined and if interesting a small specimen had to be saved for experimentation in the laboratories in the University Museum...
...America took her cue from England, but was slow at first to delve into scientific research, but having once caught the swing and realized the opportunities open she soon took her place among the greatest of nations rated according to their accomplishments in fields of chemistry and physics. At the time of the beginning of the World War in 1914 England had many of the most famous scientists working and developing new fields of study, but in that war these men as well as the younger men who had chosen these fields were called and a majority of them...