New-York tribune., 1907-09-07
BROAD FOUNDATIONs REQIIEED

The employers and business men are not th-
only ones who realize the necessity of business
training and commercial education before thu
youth enters his mercantile career. The EN-
ployer knows that training in the ways Of his
office with the average man viii in the end pro-
duce ernploye good perhaps. for the one place
in that business or perhaps a competent man in
that especial line Of business. but at best a
more or less sided. That. 70 be sure, need
not lessen his value to that particular employer
But the young men and young women chonsin-
business careers nowadays know that the proc
css which would make them one sided would be
lessening their capacity for good work. and their
earning power in another line OF business, there
fore lessenjng their value 10 themselves They
know that in every business house are some
habits. some precedents peculiar to that house.
useless to any other; they know that in many
offices exist business methods obsolete inn
proper, methods Of bookkeeping involved
cumbersome. or figuring slow and roundabout
They know that while the working for
that firm may be compelled to use those methods
of work. for a beginner to learn them and to
believe that they the best methods for OBJ
tanning the desired results would be almost
fatal
These are the things which make the business
school. the business college" the Commercial
school," fourishing institution in almost every
city in the land and an invaluable force in the
mercantile life of the country. 1t is their aim 10
start the young right at the very begin
ming of his commercial venture; in fact, to in
culcate the proper principles and to ground them
through some amount Of practice before he takes
the first step toward earning his own living
They hope so to prepare the student that he may
be able to handle any situation he encounters,
and successfully, obViating the necessity OF
learning through the bitter experience whcn
existed under the old system They do for the
young man and the girl about to enter busl-
ness life what the college does for the profess
sional man, or more nearly what the technical
institute and the schools of law and medicine
90 for their students since the business school
gives a general education for mercantile life,
but also goes thoroughly into special branches
And most of them do what the universities do
not-they aid their graduates to get places
which pay the holders real money.
WHAT BUSINESS SCHOOLS TEACH.
The business school first of all tries to teach
business habits-the ability and inclination to
think promptly and precisely and practically
on those everyday subjects with which the
merchant and business man must deal. 1t dis
courages any slipshod ways of mind or person,
any tendency to looseness Of thought or mac
curacy of method in working. The up date
business man must be alert, keen, ready; the
business school does not tolerate abSent-mind-
edress or glaring eccentricity. The physician
vbo never could find his books or instruments
tbe LAWYER who could not make out bill-aII
fbe stock Jokes told against the professional
men in the past would be without application
&c ,ta rrofesSinnaI man took instruction Tor a