Business Lieutenants

The difference between World Wars I and II can nowhere be seen better than at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. In World War I the school, for lack of students, almost folded up. But World War II is an industrial war, and this week the Business School's white-haired, easygoing dean, Dr. Wallace Brett Donham, announced that its faculty had voluntarily canceled vacations to speed their training of business lieutenants. Dean Donham said his school (this year's enrollment: 900) would start three new departments next autumn:

1) A Quartermasters' R.O.T.C., first in U.S. history. Training: business administration, with special emphasis on problems of supplying the U.S. Army. A two-year course, it will give graduates a commission as second lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps.

2) A similar Naval Supply School, for which the Navy will supply 15 officer-teachers, 435 students.

3) A twelve-month (no vacation) course called Training for Defense Industries. Subjects: industrial mobilization, management, marketing, accounting.

Said Dean Donham: "In modern war fare industrial preparedness and production are of the greatest importance, and . . . any failure behind the lines will seriously affect the chances for military success."

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