Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-02-13

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in the world is taught. and the students
are compelled to make rapid mental
calculations In them all. Outside OF
school hours. the apprentice Is kept
busy looking after the English and
French correspondence Of his chief and
in learning that particular trade or
business Of the house to which he is APP
prenticed. After business hours and In
the evenings, he must prepare for the
next days school.
During the winter, the director OF the
Eibenstock commercial school delivers
TO his students series Of six lectures.
to which the public is invited. These
lectures deal entirely with questions re
latlng to trade and the development Of
commerce. At each one Of these meet
ings, a student must prepare and deli
yer a short talk on some given topic.
In 1898. a commercial university was
established in Leipzig. Only those are
eligible to entrance who have complet-
| cd the gymnasium course or have pass
| ed the examination which admits to the
one-year coGscription service In the
army. There Is an attempt at present
| to make the diploma or certificate of
the commercial school equivalent to
the certificate OF the one-year army SER
vice but as yet nothing has come Of II.
Should this be carried through in time,
the students OF all the commercial
schools would be eligible to the uni
verslty
Inasmuch as the Commercial Univer-
sity in Leipzig has excited a great deal
81 attention and students from all parts
Of the world have gathered to hear the
lectures. giee for the benefit OF Am
ericar students and others interested
the course of lectures given during the
summer semester of 1900: Political
economy; history Of political economy
including socialism. money banks, and
the hourse; commercial law, introdnc'
ton to the study Of statistics, German
colonial politics. insurance, develop
ment of German commerce. chemical
: technology. development Of the foreign
: commerce OF all nations. science o
finance. international law. elementar!
: lessons in Chinese grammar. lectures
on China and Japan, lectures on th'
languages and customs of the people o
the people of Indo China. history o
the papacy during the Middle Ages
>. introduction to PHILOSOPHY and logic
history Of German literature, history o
England as a world power from 1900 Il
1900; physical geography, natural ply
losophy, and physics; history of the de
e velopment of education in Germany
state and church in the ninteonth cen
D fury. comparative history of the colon
les of the different European states
constitutional history, pedagogy; nat
: ural history. hygiene. etc, lectures Of
! travel.
e In addition to these lectures ther
are exercises on bookkeeping, CORES
: pondence, and Office work with com
q merclal arithmetic. There are ais
Handelsseminaren, where professo
I and students meet once a week for tn
D purposes OF discussing questions relat
ing to commerce. Instruction wit
j commercial correspondence is given Il
) the following languages: English
French Italian. Russian, and Spanish
In addition, arrangements are mad
for instruction in the German languag
and correspondence for foreigners.
Thus 1t will be seen that the studen
. has a very broad field from which t
5 choose those subjects which interes
I him most. II must be remembers
that the Commercial University Is con
! nected with the university proper, an
that great many OF the above name,
lectures have long been establishes
courses in the regular curriculum.
II Is natural to suppose that the ma
jority Of future directors and teacher
In the commercial schools will b.
chosen from the ranks of those VIII,
have completed a course in the Com
mercial University But the practica
i bility Of this scheme Is yet to be dem
onstrated, as most Of the eligible stu
= dents have had very little, II any
actual experience.