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Several members of the Business School have left to serve the interests of National Defense, and the student enrollment is likewise declining, Assistant Dean George A. Smith '36, associate professor of Business, said in an interview recently.
Five professors employed on various agencies, and seven others are engaged in research in national defense problems, he said. The faculty volunteers have two objects in leaving Harvard: first, to put their knowledge of production and administration at the service of the country, and second, to gain insight into modern industrial problems in order to bring the teaching materials of the Business School up to date.
Five Positions Filled
Of the five in Washington, Charles I. Gragg '21, associate professor of Business Administration, has a full-time job as advisor to Donald Nelson, Coordinator of Purchasing in the Treasury Department, with Howard T. Lewis as an assistant.
The Civil Aeronauties Commission, recently formed by President Roosevelt, is being aided by the technical knowledge of George P. Baker '25, associate professor of Transport, while Samuel S. Stratton '30, associate professor of Business Economics, has taken a place on the Priorities Board.
Outside of Washington, Philip Cabot '94, professor of Business Administration, helps conduct weekly meetings so that small businessmen in New England may keep up with developments in the Government's distribution of defense contracts.
Although many faculty men have temporarily turned their attention away from teaching, special courses pertaining to the defense program have been added, which, Dean Smith believed are checking the general enrollment drop by persuading men that their work at the School is as important to the country as volunteering for military service.
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