In 1908, the Graduate School of Business Administration ( GSBA ) at Harvard University was established ; it offered the world's first MBA program, with a faculty of 15 plus 33 regular students and 47 special students.

* John E. Horne ( 1908 – 1985 )-Administrator of the U. S. Small Business Administration

The Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), a New Deal agency, was active in Sulphur Springs, building in 1942 what was later called the “ Old School ,” meant to replace the crumbling 1908 structure that was razed in 1938.

* Naval Administration and Warfare: Some General Principles, with Other Essays ( 1908 )

After defeats in the ensuing general elections of 1908 and 1909 Gibbs was appointed to the Legislative Council and made Minister without portfolio in the Morris Administration, refusing further cabinet posts after Morris's resignation in 1918.

Attended school in Balaoan, Vigan, San Fernando, and was appointed government student to the United States in 1905 ; graduate of the Western Illinois State Teachers College at Macomb in 1908 ; attended the University of Chicago, in 1906 and 1907 ; graduated from Columbia University in New York City, and from the Teachers College of New York City in 1910 ; first Filipino superintendent of schools in 1915 and 1916 ; assistant director of education 1917-1921 ; member of the first Philippine mission to the United States in 1919 and 1920 ; lecturer at the University of the Philippines 1919-1921 ; president of the National University 1921-1936 ; elected a member of the Philippine Senate in 1925 ; elected as a Resident Commissioner to the United States in 1928 ; reelected in 1931 and served from March 4, 1929, until January 3, 1935, when his term expired ; member of the Constitutional Convention in 1934 ; member of the first National Assembly in 1935 ; member of the Economic Mission to the United States in 1939 ; chairman of Educational Mission 1938-1941 ; chairman of National Council of Education in 1941 ; director of publicity and propaganda until January 1942 ; chairman of National Cooperative Administration in 1941 ; subsequently assistant commissioner of the Department of Education, Health, and Public Welfare, then Minister of Education of the Philippines until 1945 ; chancellor of Osias Colleges ; elected to the Philippine Senate in 1947 for the term expiring in 1953 ; served as minority and majority floor leader and then elected president of the Philippine Senate ; Philippine representative to the Interparliamentary Union in Rome and to the International Trade Conference in Genoa in 1948 ; elected to the Philippine Senate, 1961-1967, and served as president pro tempore ; a resident of Mandaluyong, Rizal, Philippines, until his death in Manila on May 20, 1976.

Murray was county attorney of Silver Bow County, Montana from 1906 to 1908, and became chairman of the State advisory board of the Public Works Administration from 1933 to 1934.

A Methodist and a Freemason, Donaldson began his postal career in 1908 as one of three mailmen for the Shelbyville, Illinois, post office, then rose through the ranks of the Department, being appointed Postmaster General by President Harry S. Truman in 1947 and serving for the remainder of the Truman Administration until 1953.

Theodore Roosevelt appointed Dr. Hamilton Wright as the first Opium Commissioner of the United States in 1908.

* August 1 – Theodore Roethke, American poet ( b. 1908 )

In spite of the Orthodox Church's opposition to marriage between first cousins, the couple married on 23 January 1906: their first two children, Fyodor ( Theodore ) and Ludmila, were born in 1907 and 1908, respectively.

Progressive President Theodore Roosevelt had declined to run for re-election in 1908 in fulfillment of a pledge to the American people not to seek a second full term.

The Democratic Party's continued enchantment with the populist William Jennings Bryan led Hill to support Republican presidential candidates William McKinley ( 1896 and 1900 ), Theodore Roosevelt ( 1904 ), William Howard Taft ( 1908 and 1912 ).

A post office was established at Joiel from 1908 through 1910 and at Theodore from 1909 until 1912.

Theodore Roethke ( ; May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963 ) was an American poet, who published several volumes of poetry characterized by its rhythm, rhyming, and natural imagery.

Theodore Roethke ( 1908 – 1963 ) wrote of his poetry: The greenhouse " is my symbol for the whole of life, a womb, a heaven-on-earth.

In 1908, he was appointed Chairman of The National Commission on Country Life by president Theodore Roosevelt.

In 1908 President Theodore Roosevelt created Pinnacles National Monument with the power given him in the Antiquities Act of 1906 to commemorate the people and organizations instrumental to the creation and early protection of the park.

Ozark – St. Francis National Forest was created by proclamation of President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908.

In 1904, the National Geographic Magazine publicized the bridges and the area was designated a National Monument April 16, 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt.

The first trains ran in 1907 and revenue service started between Hoboken and 19th Street at midnight on February 26, 1908, after President Theodore Roosevelt pressed a button at the White House that turned on the electric lines in the uptown tubes.

He later won an appointment to West Point ( class of 1908 ) from President Theodore Roosevelt.

The forest was created in 1908 by proclamation of President Theodore Roosevelt.

On January 9, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt declared the land a National Monument, the first to be created from land donated by a private individual.

His head of Abraham Lincoln, carved from a six-ton block of marble, was exhibited in Theodore Roosevelt's White House and can be found in the United States Capitol Crypt in Washington, D. C. A patriot, believing that the " monuments we have built are not our own ," he looked to create art that was " American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement " according to a 1908 interview article.

Karl Shapiro ( 1913 – 2000 ), Randall Jarrell ( 1914 – 1965 ) and James Dickey ( 1923 – 1997 ) all wrote poetry that sprang from experience of active service. Together with Elizabeth Bishop ( 1911 – 1979 ), Theodore Roethke ( 1908 – 1963 ) and Delmore Schwartz ( 1913 – 1966 ), they formed a generation of poets that in contrast to the preceding generation often wrote in traditional verse forms.

* An obelisk memorial honoring Underhill was dedicated at the Captain John Underhill gravesite in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt.

* Theodore Kemp ( 1908 – 1922 )

Previously, during the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt, he had been Commissioner of Commerce and Police in the Philippine government from 1904 through 1908 ; and he was Vice Governor from 1908 through 1909.

From July 1, 1908 to March 1, 1909, Wright served as United States Secretary of War under President Theodore Roosevelt.

Founded in 1908, every U. S. president since Theodore Roosevelt has visited the club, and all since Warren Harding have been members.

In May 1908, Roosevelt sponsored the Conference of Governors held in the White House, with a focus on natural resources and their most efficient use.

At the end of his second term, Roosevelt promoted his friend William Howard Taft for the 1908 Republican nomination.

Roosevelt was also served as honorary president of the school health organization American School Hygiene Association from 1907 to 1908, and in 1909 he convened the first White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children.

Roosevelt certified William Howard Taft to be a genuine " progressive " in 1908, when Roosevelt pushed through the nomination of his Secretary of War for the Presidency.

In the Eighth Annual Message to Congress ( 1908 ), Roosevelt mentioned the need for federal government to regulate interstate corporations using the Interstate Commerce Clause, also mentioning how these corporations fought federal control by appealing to states ' rights.

Riding a wave of popular support for fellow Republican Roosevelt, Taft won an easy victory in his 1908 bid for the presidency.

After getting elected president in his own right in 1904, on election night on the lawn of the White House, Roosevelt publicly declared he would not run for reelection in 1908, a decision that he immediately regretted.

In May 1908, Roosevelt sponsored the Conference of Governors held in the White House, with a focus on natural resources and their most efficient use.

Roosevelt added adjacent national forest lands and redesignated the preserve a U. S. National Monument on January 11, 1908.

For his final assault on the pole, he and 23 men, including Ross Gilmore Marvin, set off from New York City aboard the Roosevelt under the command of Captain Robert Bartlett on July 6, 1908.

President Teddy Roosevelt appointed him to the National Conservation Commission in 1908, and it was Mackenzie, then manager of the Brazil Land, Cattle and Packing Company, with whom Roosevelt stayed when he visited Brazil in 1913.

Fairbanks sought the Republican nomination for President but Roosevelt ( who chose to not seek reelection ) supported William Howard Taft as his potential successor in 1908, sending Fairbanks back to the practice of law.

This was the Roosevelt, which carried Robert Peary from New York to the Arctic in 1908 for his final expedition to the North Pole.

In 1908, Roosevelt again used the act to proclaim more than 800, 000 acres ( 3, 200 km² ) of the Grand Canyon as a national monument, a very big " object of scientific interest.

Muir appealed to his friend US President Roosevelt, who would not commit himself against the dam, given its popularity with the people of San Francisco ( a referendum in 1908 confirmed a seven-to-one majority in favor of the dam and municipal water ).