Word: trade
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...specialization it is refreshing to 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...
...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...
...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...
Several members of the University Faculty are announced as serving on the staff of instruction of the Trade Union College, which, under the auspices of the Boston Central Labor Union, will open next Monday. The list includes Dean Roscoe Pound of the Law School, Professor William Hocking '01, of the Philosophy Department, Professor R. F. A. Hoernie, Professor R. K. Hack, Professor Z. Chafe '13, Mr. S. E. Morison, instructor in history, and Mr. H. J. Laski of the History Department...
...courses offered are open to all trade unionists of the American Federation of Labor and their families. More than 200 prospective candidates have field applications, although the regular enrollment has not yet started. Courses are offered in English Composition, Philosophy, Public Speaking, Literature, History and Government, Labor and Physical Science. Classes in each course will meet one evening a week from...