Evening journal., 1900-11-01
Iare Insurance Post Graduate Course

Inf,s Insurance Post Graduate COurse
In this age of professional conven-
tions. post graduate scholarships and
teachers Institutes, it is not to be
wondered at that there should be a
most graduate course for life insur-
ance men. The only wonder is that Il
should not be general in an under
taking of such vast beneficence and
wide accomplishment as that Of life
insurance. 1t would appear, however,
to be as yet a practice confined to The
Mutual Life Insurance Company, of
New York, of which Mr. Richard A.
McCurdy is president, to get its agents
together in general localities for spe-
cific schooling, and when it is borne
in mind that the agency ranks OF this
great company are mainly made up of
men who have been previously trained
to serious occupations and to the
/ learned professions, it is not at all an
abuse of the term, when We call their
meeting here to-day a Post Graduate
School" a study beyond all previous
studies.
This convention is said to be the
fifth of the kind that has been called
together under the auspices of Mr.
/ Herbert n. Fell to meet the noted
traveller. Professor William p. Stewart
who is instructor OF agents of The
Mutual Life Insurance Company, and
the pioneer in this sort of work.
After the convention was called tC
order, Mr.. Fell welcomed them with a
very apt speech along the lines ol
the value Of knowledge, the need oI
work and of method, with felicitatiOns
for their general accomplishment ant
of anticipations of success for the bal
ance of the year.
Professor Stewart in his morning
address, INDUCED in some very inter
esting references. to the early histor!
Of life insurance. showing how yer.
few were the years within which thl
world had come to any knowledge o.
its vitality, OF its numbers and of th'
!, equational principle underlying thl
insurance proposition. He pointed t,
the remarkable increase of the wealtl
Of the United States for the last tai
years, and this in contrast with tn
general increase Of the wealth OF tn
world, and with such phases OF it
wealth-accumulations as tell NOR
startingly the story of our wonderful
resources and the prophecy involves
of the wonderful future that is to bl
ours. From this he pointed the mora
in favor of the insurance proposition
which is more vital in America thar
any other part OF the world, and is fl
itself the secret Of Amerca's saving
and its wonderful wealth accumula
tions for the last decade.
His morning address was one of in
! spring statement, or revelation o
wholesome facts and OF lifelong prof
to those who had the opportunity t
= hear him.
The professors discourse for the af
ternoon will be more specifically wit
the best methods and plan systems O
, the business.
Tomorrow the professor will devot
to something more of an analytica
presentation of the science OF the bus
, ness and a definition of the basic prin
ciples involved.
The convention is to last for tw
days. and will eliminate in a Dime
in honor Of the visit of Professc
= Stewart by his host, Mr.. Herbert \
p Fell All the attending agents will h
q present at the banquet which will ais
= be distinguished by the presence {
{ the president of the National AssC
$ citation of Life Underwriters, Mr..
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