The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-07
D FIT MEN FOR TRADE
STATE UNIVERSITY MAY ESTAB-
LISH SCHOOL TO UPLIFT
AMERICAN COMMERCE.
THINGS BUSINESS MEN NEED
Ihey VIII BE Made the Essentials
in n New Course of Study
Soon to ne Inau-
GuFated.

After thorough consideration. of the
petition of business organizations In the
Twin Cities foe the establishment of
school of commerce at the state uni
versity, the board of regents has re
ported favorably thereupon. The. report
pays in part:
1T must be admitted that our present
college coures lave been adopted pri-
marily TO fit students 10 engage in the
professions and in the liberal arts. Such
was the original purpose of the universe
~, and We have beyond question evolved
courses of study and instruction admir-
ably adopted to the above purpose.
During the last quarter of a century,
the period during which business and in
dqstrial, interests. have become central
1zled, and organized as never before, a
nav demand has been made upon col
leges and universities a demand that
up to this time mas not been met !. Our
banking. interest and the mechanism of
exchange demand the training of voune
men, not so mucn in the classics as in fha
technique of banking, foreign exchanges.
9nFestments, negotiable Instruments
commercial paper, contracts, and the his
tory of banking and technical banking
problems. Our manufacturers are in need
OF young men and women, who are train
ed not so much in Latin, Greek, ancient
hiStroy, calculus and moral philosophy,
as young men and women who can read,
write and speak not only the English
language, but the modern language of
the country with whom their house is
doing business, who know public and
private international law, the history of
modern diplomacy, the special duties Of
consular officers; who know the raw ma
terial that enters into the goods their
house is manufacturing and selling, the
sources from which the same is obtained,
the conditions and limitations of its pro-
auctions. and its chief markets. Young
men and women who have studied mod
ern means and laws of transportation and
distribution.
n might seem at first glance that a
school of commerce to meet present and
future demands would require many
different chairs as there are industries
and interests engaged in doing the
worlds business, but a closer study OF
4be nroblem will, we think, convince this
hoard that this is no more necessary than
Il is necessary to have a separate course
NJ Study for students contemplating dill
ferent professions.
PRESENT TEACHERS CAN AID.
President Northrop requested the COM
rittee in making the report il faVoring
the establishment of a school of COM
1nerce, to recommend a course of study
In doing so it can only hope to outline a
tentative course, merely as more clearly
eiucidating the views of the committee,
leaving it to the faculty to work out In
detail and modify according to ability Of
the members of the faculty to give in
struction as nearly as they can along
the lines mal ked out by the committee.
The analysis of the course herewith
shows that of the 1850 recitation periods
required to complete the course, 800 will
Zoe conducted by the science teachers now
employed; $40 by the department of po-
lidcal science; 800 by the department Of
history: 800 by the department of modern
languages; 200 by the department of
rhetoric and English; so by the depart
ment Of law; 1G0 by the department Of
mathematics; while $50 electives also are
to be chosen by the students from the
departments already established at the
university, just as all the work of jun
Tors and seniors is now chosen, the only
difference being that students in the
school of commerce, may, upon payment
OF fee, choose electives in the law de-
partment The portion of the work
above referred to will involve little adj
dltlonal expense, as it will be done by
the regular corps of instructors. though
ii viii involve considerable modifca-
lion of their work as now done to NEE,
ne demands of the students in the school
of commerce
10 provide for the remaining portione
7Dl the work $50 periods. or about II per
cent OF the whole, viz, the work in
economic geography, raw materials, com.