Dean E. F. Wright '24 of the Harvard Business School has just returned from a month's lecture tour which included visits to 17 colleges and universities, and two visits to groups of business men. The trip extended as far west as Indiana and as far south as Tennessee.
The purposes of the tour were three fold, according to Dean Wright. The first was to establish contacts with the deans and president of the various institutions he visited and to acquaint them with the aims and work of the Business School. His next duty was to interview prospective students who were contemplating going to a business school, and to talk with them about the Harvard Business School. His last object was to visit two builders supply conventions held at Dayton, Qhio, and Indianapolis, Indiana.
Dean Wright had three means of approach to the students with whom he wished to talk. He delivered lectures at the chapel exercises, gave informal class room discussions, restricted generally to Economics Classes, and third held private and group interviews.
Dean Wright reports that in a great majority of the colleges that he visited a decided increase was noticed in the number of students who were contemplating entering business schools.
The list of the colleges the dean visited follows: Allegheny College, Meadville, Penn.: College of Wooster, Wooster, Penn.; College of Wooster, Wooster, Penn.; Kenyon College, Cambier, Ohio; Denison University, Granville, Ohio: Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio; Butler University, Duke, lowa; Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana; Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana; De Pauw, Greencastle, Indiana; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; Heidelberg, College, Tiffin, Ohio; Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio; Western Reserve University, Cleveland. Ohio; Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio; University of Pittsburgh, Penn.; Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh Penn.; Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Penn.
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