Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-10
.NEN IDEA |NlDOCA|lON
State University to Establish a
Course in Higher Commer-
cial Education.
Many Students Will Be Able
to Make the Course
Elective.
Intended to Aid Collegians Who
Expect to Engage in
Business.

Expect to Engage IN
Business.
Iowa City, Jan. 10-One of the chief
Iobjects Of the university school OF po-
Ilitcal and social science is to fit men TO
be better business men and citizens. The
university authorities recognize that
there is a great demand for a higher
commercial education among the young
men of the state. One of the prominent
alumni of the university now engaged
lin large business, said only the other
lday that the university would have to
trovide for this demand if it is to full
I fill its function as a state university.
4 The pressure of business demands on
lthis year by the university in its collie
lgiate department. where but a slight
j:Eain has been made in attendance ow-
ling to the excellent business opportuni-
ties that are open to young men. To
provide for the fitting of young men for
the more responsible and difficult busi-5
ness pistions. the Iowa school of polite
4 cal and social science will next year be
prepared to offer courses in higher COM
nercial education.
The courses which will be offered in
4 this department of the school are not Vet
fully determined. but they will probably
sIinclude the following divisions:
1. a body Of knowledge and principles
Applicable to any form OF business man.
I.agement and organization, the training,
lin fact, Which is needed by a business
Imam as such.
2. more special preparation for
4 banking. insurance and railroad service
les wellias for domestic and foreign COM
4 raerce, the diplomatic service and pubs
4 lie administration.
A 3. Such further teaching and training
as will prepare men for journalism or
4 for participation in civic affairs.
q President Angel, of the University Of
a Michigan. said recently in a. public adj
4 dress: 1T seems to me that it is the
4 tuty of the universities to train men so
4 they may be fitted to guide the interna-
4 ticnal concerns. Z
This new effort for the practical ed
i ucation of business men is the newest
thing in higher education. Schools of
commerce ard finance have appeared
under various names in the last decade
in many of the educational institutions
A of the country. Among the examples
4 of these schools which may be men
toned are the Amos Tuck School of
Administration and Finance, Of Dart
mouth College the School of Com
Y nerce. Of the University of California
:. and similar schools established By the
~.
. Chicago. Columbia and the University
of the City of New York. The purpose
of the universities of the country to
play. a part in the development of high
err types of citizenship and effective
. statecraft has been evidenced for some
years by the great interest taken in the
I departments of history and political
:. and social science The State Univer-
: sity of Iowa has been fully alive in this
matter and there is now offered by the
school of political and social science a
civic-1lstortcat course, preparing men
for public administration. which now
has soma one hundred and fifty stu
7 dents enrolled in it.
The purpose of the university to take
more direct share in preparing men
for the practical affairs OF business is
a newer phase of the schools activity
Not only have the interests of educa-
ton demanded the organization OF such
courses, but commercial reasons alone
imperativelN require that immediate
! and decisive steps, in the direction of q
I, higher commercial education be taker
{ by the business men of this country
: The increasing competition OF the
world, the successful efforts put forth
by the European nations to equip t1eil
! merchants and bankers with every
: means of CARRYING on the intense com
: spetitive struggle for enlargement OF
. markets and advancement of business
demand that the commercial youth OF
the United States shall have better
training and sounder education in al
that is essential to the carrying on Of
successful business enterprises. This
? training needed is something more thar
is now given by private business col
leges. Besides book keeping AM
!. mathematics, 1t is felt that There
! should be a study of such subjects a:
!. merchandise, commercial geography
!. lcivll, commercial. maritime and inter
y national law; statistics, commercial
history, commercial tools, transporta.
ton political economy, money ant
Banking the sciences of phi yrics ana
chemistry in at least an elemental de
!. gree, and a familiarity with any of th,
languages of commerce, especially Ger
\ man. Spanish and French.
The length OF the course In highe
q commercial education will be abou
: two years. The best way that it coult
y be taken would be in the Junior ant
senior years OF a regular college course
The electives are then sufficiently flex
|ible to allow the student to take jus
the studies that he would find the bes
: adapted to the business which he de
d sires to enter. 1t is possible. however
for those who do not feel that they cal
II spare the time for this course. to ente
directly the courses which they desire
This will probably be done by over hal
: of the Students who enter the course
lin higher commercial education.
: The Offering of this new course il
higher commercial education Will In
Z. volye the addition of two men to TIL
instructional corps of the school of pc
n Ilitical and social science. These will b
Il instructors in insuran nee and accounting
and in the consular and diplomatic ser
Y vice.
The rest of the courses require,
would either be found In courses al
Iready offered by the school OF politica
}. and social science Of would be draw