Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-04
HARVARD COURSE IN PRINTING.
Post Graduate school of Business
offers an Attractive Branch.

Post Graduate school of Business
offers an Attractive Branch.
The Harvard graduate school OF busl-
ness administration hakes provisional an
nouncement Of courses OF instruction in
tended especially for men, already college
graduates who wish 70 prepare for admin
istrative positions In the printing or pub
fishing business, or in the allied trades. In
making this announcement the school lays
stress on the fact that the technical part
Of this training Is only subsidiary to the
general business training which the school
offers TO all candidates for its degree,
whether their calling be that Of the banker
the accountant, the textile mAnufR cturer or
the railroad operator. Instruction In the
principles OF accounting, commercial law,
factory organization and economic re-
sources is required for all; and the pros
pective printer, publisher or paper manu-
facturer may specialize to some extent in
any OF these subjects as well as In the
courses included under the head of printing
These are described as follows:
new course in the history of printing
offered by the department Of fine arts TO
undergraduates in Harvard college, and
counting as a half-course. Two Of the ex-
isting undergraduate courses in drawing,
painting and design will also, in connec-
ton with the regular work, give special at
tention to the needs and problems Of print
ing as related to the fine arts
A course on the technique Of printing Of
fered in the business school. This course
will give a survey Of the materials and
technical processes connected with print
ing: ink, paper type, printing machinery
etc., each division Of the general subject
being in charge of a professional expert
This will be a half-course in the second
half-year.
For the second year Of the two years
course there is announced an advanced
course In business practice in printing, in
cudlng visits to printing establishments,
and reports on printing office organization
costs and accounting, exercises in the prep
aration OF copy, proofreading, reports on
book printing catalogue making and job
work This course viii be in charge Of an
instructor who has a general experience Of
printing and publishing.
Interesting to him. '.
In the second year there will probably be
advanced instruction In the application Of
the principles of design to printing (the
type page, title pages. ornamentation, illus
tration, color scheme, binding etc.). A
course will probably be given also on the
various arts Of reproduction. such as half
tone and line-plate engraving photO-color
work, lithography, etc.
In addition to the general training in
business administration, and to the special
work related to printing, persons intending
to specialize in certain departments, such
as the manufacture Of ink, paper or print
! ing machinery, may obtain in the school
of applied, science such fundamental train
ing in chemistry, mechanical engineering.
electrical engineering and other subjects as
will equip them to study, later on the
scientific problems peculiar to their several
specialties.
1t will be observed in all this provision
for the training Of printers that the OBJ
ject Is rather to teach men how to meet
the problems Of their trade scientifically
than to givt them beforehand a mastery
of those practical details which can only
be acquired by actual experience in the
office or shop The students will be
initiated into this practical work. however,
by opportunities provided them for work
during the summtr vacation.
This new departure in university train
| ing has been started with the hearty CO.
operation of the Boston Society OF Printers
, and Is in fact q response to the expression
of their desire for the recognition of
printing as a subject in which university
| preparation Is no desirable than in en-
gineering. or in other lines OF business.
Moreover 1t is part of larger program
now in process of development in the busi-
ness school for specialized preparation for
certain important industries.