The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-21
COMMERCIAL EDUCATION.
Interesting Address OF President
Eliot, OF Harvard University -He
Makes Some Pertinent Suggestions.

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Eliot, of Harvard Tfntversity-Ho
Nn1res Some pcrtInont Sugyestions.
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Some OF the most learned college men
and scholars in America participated In
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commercial congress at the natlonol eS-
port exposition. Commercial educa-
ton" ,yna the general snbieot and the
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various PHuses 'He "p'c "yte
treated IN admirable tashlon by the
noted speakers.
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marks spoke OF the various features OF
commercial education.
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euucauon anu the Deneuts 10 result
therefrom were then detailed by Presl-
dent Charles Eliot, Of Harvard pnl-
Versity; Hon. ]. G. Schurman, OF Cor
nell University; Provost Charles O..
Harrison. Of the University Of Pennsyl-
Vania, and others.
President Eliot said In part:
II ask your attention for few rno-
ments to the chief features OF n COM
merclRll education capable Of preparing
men and women for much more than
clerical service and much more than
narrow retail trading. An indispensl7
BILE element In the trading have in
view Is the sound secondary education;
that Is, an education In a first rats
school, publicly endowed or private,
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the pupil from thirteen or fourteen until
eighteen years OF age. This secondary
] education should include the modern
lRnguages-an essential part Of a good
preparation for the higher wHlks of
business life. II may or may not In
clude Latin and Greek. For lnterna.
tIonal commercial life in English speak
ing countries a good knowledge Of three
languages besides English is desirable
namely, French, German and Spanish.
guages will ordinarily suffice for prin-
cIpaIS, but for travelling agents or
agents resident abroad, n speaking
knowledge OF at least two Of these lam
guages Is desirable. This knowledge
should be acquired at the secondary
school.
"Let us imagine a boy equipped at
eighteen with these broad fundamental
acquisitions and let us then ask our-
selves what additional subjects should
be treated In an upper commercial
school. The following list Of subjects Is
by no means completes but may serve
to give a fair idea OF the diversity and
1 diHiculty OF the subjects appropriate to
superior commercial education: Eco
Monies, statistics banking, currency,
exchange, arbltrage. insurance, gov
eminent tariffs. transportation by land
and water, commercial geography, cll-
mates, ethnology, commercial products
by region and by nationality or race,
consumption by region and race. MARI
time legislation. blockade rights, neu-
tral rights, commercial law. Industrial
combinations Of capital, labor unions
nnd-If / may use a new but conve-
uient word-fnancIng new undertake
ings."
President Eliot said that owing to the
large number of subjects system OF