Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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The Faculty of The College of Business Administration PROFESSORS Neil Carothers, Ph. D., Professor of Economics and Director of the College of Business Administriiiion Roy Burford Cowin, M. A. Professor of Accountancy Herbert Mavnard Diamond, Ph. D. Professor of Economics ASSISTANT PROFESSORS Frederick Aldex Bradford, Ph. D. Assistant Professor of Economics John Paul Jones, Ph. D. Assistant Professor of Economics Ward Leslie Bishop, Ph. D. Assistant Professor of Economics Whiton Powell, M. S. Assistant Professor of Accountancy Donald Elliott Anthony, Ph. D. Assistant Professor of Economics INSTRUCTOR Villi. m Herbert Withers, M. A. Instructor in Economics •=iI27I

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College of Business Administration Neil Carothers, B. A., Ph. D. Head of the College of Business Administration LIKE all the others of its kind, Lehigh ' s College of Business Administration is a modern development. At all universities the commerce college began with a course or so in Economics. With increasing popularity these courses were organized into a separate department of economics in the Arts college. This in turn grew into a separate college, having its own staff and giving its own degree. The oldest college of this kind in the country is less than fifty years old. Lehigh ' s college of business is not yet ten years old. Beginning with a handful of students, limited quarters, and a small staff, it has grown into a college which has its own building, includes in its personnel more than one-fifth of all the student body, and offers a complete four-year curriculum in business science. It has in the past suffered somewhat from the growing pains of too rapid development, and for a time it did not attract the high quality of student it now receives. Its growth has been due at least in part to its adherence to a definite principle not recognized or followed in many other colleges. That principle declares that the purpose of a college of commerce is to train the student in fundamentals. It denies that any college can make captains of industry or business e.xecutives in the class-room, and affirms that the best undergraduate training in business is one which gives the student a knowledge of the cultural and social aspects of economic life and an understanding of the fundamentals of economics, accounting, and finance, which are basic factors in all business. It does not believe that a narrow specialization in one field of business is the best preparation for success in business life. The curriculum at Lehigh is based upon this principle. It calls for training in fundamentals. There is ample provision for specialization in accounting, finance, and other fields, but not at the expense of the more general work. The desirability of this type of curriculum is demonstrated in the growing reputation of the college, its increasing enrollment, and the character of the positions offered to its students at graduation. It is a matter of pride to its undergraduate members that the Achievement Tests of the Carnegie Foundation in May, 1928, rated Lehigh first in all the colleges of business in the state of Pennsylvania. -426Ii=-

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Engineering Schools Harry Maas Ullmann, A. B., Ph. D. Head of the Department of Chemistry The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering CHEMISTRY, in recent years, has come to be one of the most important of all sciences. In addition to its engineering phase, its work now includes economic and philosophical applications. Practically all industries and processes, what- ever t heir type, have features which are based on chemical principles; consequently the man trained in chemistry or chemical engineering now has a vast field in en- gineering, manufacture, agriculture, biology, chemistry, and all the allied profes- sions and industries. His activities are no longer confined to the laboratory. The fact that so many non-chemical plants need men trained in chemical principles, s a direct manifestation of the important part which this subject plavs in human ife. The department, realizing the enormous field which must be covered in order to get a thorough understanding of the nature of chemistry, has so balanced its curriculum that the student gets a thorough insight into both theoretical chemistry and its engineering features. The economic and cultural sides of the field have not been overlooked, however, and both languages and a thorough knowledge of chemistry and its applications, a fundamental training in all science and in other engineering fields is also attained. Either pure theoretical or research chemistry or the many phases of chemistry in industries, may be studied. The establishment of a Research Department at Lehigh by the various oil and paint companies throughout the East is a fitting testimonial to the work which has been done in this line by the department. Ten graduate Fellows are at present engaged in extending knowledge of industrial processes and fundamental chemical constants. Six organizations of various industries are supporting this research. The most extensive investigation is the special research in linseed oil and other drying oils, is supported by two of the leading producers of linseed oil and by their affiliated industries. The department is primarily interested in guiding the oncoming chemists and therefore maintains a constant relation between students and teachers. In- spection trips throughout the East are made by the senior class each spring in order to observe at first hand the engineering problems with which they will be later confronted. A close relationship between the department, under-graduates, and alumni is also maintained, with mutual benefit to all. •4 28 l!=-