Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-02-24
YALE'S TRADE | COURSE
A Commercial Museum Planned
For Her Students.
BUSINESS TRAINING TO BE GIVEN

Merchants and manufacturers VIII
BE Invited to supply Material For
New Museum at the New Haven In
stitution-Eirst OF Its Kind Among
American Colleges.
When Yale opens its new CONNER
cial museum. about May l. it will be
the pioneer college in the United States
in a movement to combine business
with university education, says a
New Haven correspondent Of the Bos-
ton Herald The new museum, as well
as the courses in commercial geOgra-
ply which will be established in con
nection with this undertaking. is plan
Qed for students who are expecting
when they leave college to go 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 to
cut out the frills and get practical
knowledge which will help them run
their fathers businesses when they
leave Yale.
"The tendency these days" said one
Of the professors interested in the new
movement, lis 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 an
inch or yard long. without having to
stop to consult an encyclopedia, and
these courses will teach some Of these
things, Such knowledge. for example,
as TO where the timber OF the world
is situated and what countries produce
certain commodities is necessary for q
foundation in the study of economies
otherwise students of political economy
deal in theories and 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 a 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 it was de-
cided to expand this department and
augment it with. the first commercial
museum to be established in any OF the
colleges in the United States.
It is planned soon to have courses
which will include the study Of various
countries in the world besides the
United States and her dependencies, so
that in time men about to enter the
consular service can have an Opportu-
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 a large amount
of material from the bureau Of plant
industry and the bureau Of soils. Then
the Porto Rican, the Hawaiian and the
Alaskan exhibits at the Portland expo
sition have been secured for the new
museum
Professor III. e. Gregory, Professor
A. G. Keller and Dr. A. L. Bishop, who
have arranged the new museum, are
planning to enlarge it from time to
time through the large wholesale com
mercial houses and other business
houses who will be invited to send ex-
hibits to Yale. In paper, leather and
cotton goods it is planned to have spec
linens showing the development from
the raw material through the various
stages of semimanufactured to the fin
ished article.
In connection with the museum
courses will be offered dealing extern
sively with the flora and fauna of com
merce. the transportation system and
the markets for various commodities.