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...find somebody who combines the functions o teacher and pupil, of the orizer and practical man. Harvard is the first University in the country, and, possibly, in the world, to create a chair o foreign trade; and the man who has been chosen to fill it--Professor George B. Roorbach--has had a chance to put his ideas into practice. The creation of the new chair is the latest chapter in the growth of interest in the science of economics which has been the most notable alteration of recent years in Harvard's curriculum. Professor Taussing was the second...
...pursuance of its established policy of recognizing the close relation between the theory of trade and the practical commercial problems of today, the Graduate School of Business Administration announced last night the appointment of George Byron Roorbach to fill the newly-created position of professor of foreign trade...
Professor Roorbach who was graduate of Colgate University in 1903, is an expert on commercial conditions throughout the world. He was for seven years a professor of commercial geography at the University of Pennsylvania, leaving his position in 1915 to travel on a commission in South America for the Carnegie Endowment, for the purpose of making an exhaustive study of trade conditions...
During the war Professor Roorbach was associated with former Dean E. F. Gay in work on the U. S. Shipping Board. Since the armistice, as chairman of the Governmental Committee on the Revision and Classification of Trade Statitics, he has been engaged in the tremendous task of devising a new system of trade statistics for the United States of the American business...
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences --University Scholarships--H. T. Costello 1G., A.B. 1908, student of Philosophy. W. H. H. Roth 1G., Reifezeugniss 1906, student of English. Josiah Dwight Whitney Scholarship ($100)--G. B. Roorbach 1G., A.B. 1903, Austin Scholar, student of Geology...