Word: retail
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Ogden gave an interesting lecture in the Union last evening on retail trade as a profession for college men. This was the second of the series of lectures on the professions arranged by the Governing Board of the Union. The speaker said that he realized that business has not the glamour for the university man which is possessed by such professions as medicine, law, and engineering. Narrow-minded prejudice against trade is, however, giving way to a new order of judgment, a spirit of true democracy, which recognizes a man by his deeds. The management of the department store...
...most important factor in the management of the department store is the personal element, which is essential to success. Care, good breeding, intelligence, and fidelity are indispensable, and there is a field for originality and intellectual growth. Though the retail business has reached a high level, there will always be a vast opportunity for men with first-class executive and financial ability to broaden and improve the business profession...
...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...
...Robert C. Ogden of New York will speak on "Retail Trade as a Career for College Graduates" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open to members of the Union only. This is the second of a series of lectures on professions to be given during the winter...