The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-21
COLLEGE Men FOR
BUSINESS WORLD.
The Province of the Amos Tuck
School.
DIPLOMACY Also TAUGHT
Unique Course Has Been Established
IN This American School.
Professors aud
Pupils.

notable experiment among those now be-
ing made in fitting college men for BUSH
ness was begun this year in the open
1ns, OF the Amos Tuck School of Admins
tration and Finance as a graduate de-
partulent of Dartmouth College Its name
administration and finance-inGicates
Its scope. 1t is founded to train young
men in the broad principles governing the
great modern businesses, not to tit them
definitely for definite positions, but to
bring them Intellectually in touch with
the great problems which are involved
III business control and extension, and
to send them out into the world with
that Invaluable right point Of view
which ought to be worth half the bat
tie.
The Tuck School was founded in mem
DRY of he late Amos Tuck, Of New Hamp-
shire, by the generosity Of his son, Mr..
Edward Tuck, of Paris, who turned over
to the college, last spring, securities
amounting to $SC0,G0c. Mr.. Tuck is a
graduate of Dartmouth. in the class of
1852. ard IS a colegemate. therefore, of
President Tucker. lie began life in the
diplomatic service in the American lega-
ton in Paris; later, for a considerable
time, he was member OF the Franco
American clearinghouse of Monroe & Co.
Since his retirement from active partici-
patton il: that business he has been con-
nected with various enterprises in this
country. He is one OF the directors of
the Chase National Bank of New York.
and large holder OF stock OF the Great
Northern Railway.
AMOS TUCK.
Ills father, Amos Tuck, was q typical
son OF the Granite State. He was one of
the most prominent figures in the polit-
lcal history of New Hampshire and New
England during the early part OF the an
u-siavery conflict. He was one of the
original members Of the Free Soil Party,
q staunch supporter of John z. Hale in
his contest with Franklin Pierce, and in
timately associated with men like Joshua
X. Giddings and Thaddeus Stevens. For
SIX years he was a member OF Congress,
and during that time he was one of the
really Intimate friends of Mr. Lincoln.
their friendship continuing to the end
Leaving Congress, he resumed the prac-
tee OF law in Exeter. He was a man
noted Tor his resolute courage in diff
cult political situations. He was a grad
uate OF Dartmouth in the class Of 1872,
and a trustee OF the college from 1857 to
1866.
Hanover, the seat of Dartmouth Col
lege, is a quiet New Hampshire town.
and distant from any great city but the
Tuck School has been able to count on
the interest Of financiers and leaders of
great businesses in the most important
commercial centers in the country from
New York and Boston to Chicago and
St Paul, appealing % the broad minded
business IAN everywhere, whether he
has graduated from Dartmouth or any
other college, or whether he worked up
to his present position in the usual way.
For such a school would mean, if it is
successful and "a ayn ,o,la Dart.
mouth is followed in other American
college centres, that the American bust
ness man of the future, while not lack
ing i'll the force and special knowledge of
his predecessor, is to have a wider Gull
ture, broader outlook, and a sounder
knowledge Of the principles which lie at
the base of commercial affairs.
THE MAN WANTED.
In making ZIP the curriculum, the Dart
nout! authorities tried to pvt themselves
in the place of the college graduate who,
like so many of his class nowadays, has
determined not to enter a profession,
but to engage actively in affairs. They
realized that a graduate school should
not and could not be a Commercial col
lege"; that it must present not so much
details as principles; and that these
principles must be based not only on the
general culture of a college educat ton,
pul Oh IL SpGcidl SlGuy bl lllidllcc, CCUliO-
mics, history, law and politics. They
realized that the young man leaving such
a school must be prepared, not for mere
clerkship-whch was matter Of prac-
teal training-but for a position of re-
sponsibility and control and knowing
that in such a position a mans outlook
must be the widest, they made up the
two years course which was begun in
September with the formal opening Of,
the new school.
It was their aim, to quote the carefully
prepared announcement which was given
out last summer; ito prepare men in
those fundamental principles which de-
ternine the conduct OF affairs. and TO
give specific instruction In the common
law and the laws pertaining to property,
in the management of trusts and invest
ments. in the problems of taxation and
currency. practical banking and trans
.portation, in the methods Of corporate
and municipal administration, in the
growth and present status of the foreign
commerce of the United States, and in
the rules governing he civil and consular
service. The attempt viii be made to IN
sure to college graduates who have III
View administrative or financial careers,
the preparation equivalent in its purpose
to that obtained in the professional or
technical schools. The training OF the
school is not designed 'to take the place
of an apprenticeship in any given bust
ness but it is believed that the same
amount of academic training is calied
Tor under the enlarged demands OF bus
mess as for the professions or for the
productive industries.
SERIOUS AND STuDlOUS.
The greatest care was taken to make
the first entering class. however small 1t
might be, a body of serious, studlous. de-
ternined young men, who should re1iect
credit, when they went outslnto NE. on
the institution from which they had come
Too much stress cannot be laid on the
fact that the Tuck School is graduate
school, with two years OF instruction iol-
loving Il thorough college preparation
To enter it student must have received
degree from a college of recognized
standard. The only exception IS that Sc
niors in Dartmouth OF proved ao'tity
who have taken the proper preparatory
courses in their first three years IN the
college. may elect the first year III the
Tuck School in place OF the fourth year
in the college, receiving the "A. =. degree
at the end of that year and the tuck
certificate a year later Students from
other colleges entering the senior year
AZ 5sDa rtnolth in order to avail them