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Wayne University. Some of these
took part in the discussion which followed
Dean KimbalΓs address. Also
present from Ithaca were Walter C.
Heasley, Jr. '30, Acting Alumni Secretary
of the University and executive
secretary of the Alumni Fund; and
Garner A. Adams '35, assistant Alumni
Fund secretary.
Dinners are announced by the Club
for the third Wednesday of each
month, each with a speaker from the
University or elsewhere and with
prominent Detroit guests invited, to
discuss varied phases of the University
and educational development.
Program committee consists of'Club
President Linton Hart '14, Philip J.
Kent '14, H. W. Peters '14, and
Matthew Carey '15.
Pianist Entertains Club
ORNELL Women's Club of Ithaca
C enjoyed a musicale January 8, in
the recreation room of Balch Hall.
Claire James, Music, a student of
Egon Petri, University Pianist-inresidence,
played Scarlatti, Brahms,
Shostakovitch, and Chopin.
"Whittier and Winter"
U P to now, we have always regarded
"Snow Bound" as a firstclass
poem by a second-class poet. It
has been our custom to read it aloud
at least once every winter. It managed
to express for us observations, sensations,
and emotions that stuck inside;
that could not quite emerge and take
form without expert assistance. Whittier
did the job for us. This, after all,
is the true function of the poet.
But this year, "Snow Bound" failed
to touch the spot. In comparison with
what has been going on for months in
the Swamp College School District,
Whittier's storm was just a minor
episode.
The snowed-up Whittiers, you recall,
were plowed out on the third day.
They had no electrical life line to go
down in the blast, no gas engines to
sputter and die. After the stock had
been fed and the wood-box replenished,
all the Whittiers had to do was
sit around the fire, crack nuts, and
tell stories.
But there is an epic quality in the
current Swamp College winter which
takes it, as a literary topic, entirely
out of the Maud Muller class. The
excellent Whittier isn't quite up to the
assignment. It would take a Dante to
handle it, or anyway a Milton. One
hears above the tempest the cries of
demons; the shouts of demigods are
smothered in the whirling drifts. This
is no time to crack nuts and tell
stories.—Romeyn Berry '04 in "State
and Tioga," Ithaca Journal.
February /, 1945
Business School To Open July 1
UNDER DEAN PAUL M. O'LEARY, PhD '29
DEAN PAUL M. O'LEARY, PhD >29
Heads School of Business and Public
Administration at the University.
A
SCHOOL of Business and Public
Administration at the University,
to open next July 1, and appointment
of Professor Paul M. O'Leary,
PhD '29, Economics, as Dean of the
School were approved by the University
Trustees, January 20.
Following recommendations of a
special committee of the Faculty appointed
by President Edmund E.
Day, the School will "provide training
for leadership in private enterprise
and in public affairs." Students will
be accepted after three years as undergraduates
at Cornell or in other
accredited colleges, and will be eligible
for the Bachelor's degree after one
year in the School, the Master's degree
after two years, and the PhD
after further study. Students who
specialize in Public Administration
will be prepared to enter government
service as economists, trade analysts,
statisticians, and economic specialists
with State or Federal agencies. Those
who specialize in Business Administration
will be trained for careers as
research economists with concerns
in foreign and domestic commerce,
with management companies, banks,
investment houses, business-research
agencies, farm-marketing cooperatives,
or as accountants.
Until the curriculum and Faculty
of the School are fully organized, the
Department of Economics, of which
Professor O'Leary is chairman, will
administer a course in Business Administration
for returning war veterans
and civilian students. Beginning
next November, students in Arts and
Sciences may elect to major in Busi-
ness Administration toward the AB,
their studies to include prescribed
courses in Ar4)s, in production management
and control given in Engineering,
in marketing in the College
of Agriculture.
The President's special committee
reported in April, 1941. Professor William
I. Myers '14, Agricultural Economics,
now Dean of Agriculture, was
chairman; with Professors Martin P.
Catherwood, PhD '30, Public Administration,
now on leave as New
York State Commissioner of Commerce;
Howard B. Meek, Hotel Administration;
Homeyn Y. Thatcher
'08, Civil Engineering; John R. Bangs,
Jr. '21, Administrative Engineering;
and O'Leary. Its report was approved
by the University Faculty in December,
1941, and January 24, 1942, the
Board of Trustees authorized establishment
of the School when it should
be feasible.
Dean O'Leary says: "Relations between
government and business are
now so close as to require little comment.
They will continue to be close
in years to come. My own experience
as an economist and administrator in
business and in government has convinced
me that both business and
government have a desperate need for
men and women trained in economics,
business operations and practices, and
in the processes of government."
Directed OPA Rationing
Professor O'Leary received the AB
at University of Kansas in 1922 and
after receiving the AM at Harvard in
1924, came to Cornell as a graduate
instructor in Economics. A sprinter
at Kansas, he assisted Coach John F.
Moakley for several years; .was appointed
assistant professor in 1929
and professor in 1936. In 1939, he was
chief economic analyst in the US Department
of Commerce, and in February,
1941, was granted leave to join
the price stabilization division of the
advisory committee of the Council of
National Defense. When the Office of
Price Administration was organized,
he became price executive for textiles,
leather, and apparel; then assistant
director of the price division; and in
February, 1942, was put in charge of
rationing as deputy administrator.
Resigning from OPA in October, 1943,
he was director of the Washington,
D. C., office of the Research Institute
of America, an advisory service for
business management, until last April,
when he returned to the University,
becoming head of the Department of
Economics July 1.
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