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1924
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1920s
Dewing, Arthur Stone
Also in 1924:
New York banker George F. Baker gives $5 million to build the entire HBS campus (and later adds an additional $1 million for endowment).
Campaign for $10 million is announced on former President Eliot's 90th birthday
Architectural competition to design HBS campus is announced in August; extended in November to enable 12 finalists to refine work
Donham seeks a campus that will "help the students to be something more than money-makers"
Faculty teaches sections as "interchangeable parts" for first time
HBS begins teaching Army and Navy officers at Soldiers Field in preparation for teaching at Army Industrial College; by 1941, they total 135 Army and 55 Navy officers.
Of 1.2 million pages of cases produced, 225,000 go to other schools
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Timeline: 1924
Professor Arthur Stone Dewing calls for a library "dragnet" to collect ephemeral business papers
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