The Delta independent., 1906-03-16


When Yale opens its new CONNER.
cial museum, about May !. 1t will be
the pioneer college In the United States
In n movement to combine a business
with university education, says q
New Haven correspondent OF the Bos'
ton Herald. The new museum. A. well
as the courses I'm commercial geogra.
ply which will he established In con
nection with this undertaking. u plan.
ned for students who are expecting
when they leave college to so Into
business or into the consular service OF
the United States and to help out those
sons OF business men who want to get
an education at Yale, but who want 10
cut out the frills and get pfaefcai
knowledge which will help then run
their fathers businesses when they
leave Yale.
THE tendency these days" said one
of the professors interested In the new
movement, as to get all the practical
knowledge possible while In college. A
business man wants as an assistant a
man who knows the difference be.
tween hard and soft coal. for example:
whether cotton grows with fibers m
inch or n yard long. without ha wing to
stop to consult an encyclopedla, and
these courses will teach some Of these
things. Such knowledge. for example.
rs TO where the timber of the world
Is situated and what countries produce
certain commodities is necessary for a
foundation in the study OF economies,
otherwise students of political economy
deal In theories aud are up in the
clouds. SO TO speak. without anything
tangible TO hold them on earth"
The study OF commercial geography
along the lines on which Yale is now
going to branch out was begun there
only about q couple OF years ago. but
the popularity of these courses, which
dealt with the materials of commerce.,
their transportation and the market for
them was so marked and the students
so crowded the courses that 1t was de-
ciled to expand this department and
augment 1t with the first commercial
museum to I've established in any of the
colleges In the United States.
1t Is planned soon to have courses
which will include the study Of various
countries lu the world besides tho
United States and her dependencies. SO
that in time men about to enter the
nifty to learn something Of the coun-
tries In which they are to live before
leaving the United States.
Secretary Wilson of the department
OF agriculture has become very much
Interested In the experiment and has
loaned to the university large amount
of material from the bureau OF plant
industry and the bureau OF soils. Then
the Porto Rlcan, the Hawaiian and the
Alaskan exhibits Mt the Portland expo
sition have been secured for the new
museum. p.lIr Han. r4
Professor II. Z. Gregory. Professor
A. G. Keller and DIR. A. L. Bishop. who
have arranged the new museum. are
planning TO enlarge 1t from time to
time through the large wholesale COM
merclal houses and other business
houses who will he invited to send cx-
hlbits to Yale. In paper, leather and
cotton goods 1t Ia planned to have spec.
linens showing the development from
the raw material through the various
stages Of semimanufacturcd to the fih-
ished article.
In connection With the museum
courses will be offered dealing exten-
sivcly with the flora md fauna OF COM
mcrce, the transportation system and
the markets for various commodities.
~ \, M FoR TRADE.