New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-10
Age IS. Employer of 1000
Hands, He Enters on Har-
ward Commercial Course.

Boston. Mass, April 81 am taking adj
vantage of an opportunity 10 accumulate
facts From scientific facts We gain knowl-
edge From knowledge comes wisdom. and
wisdom wins" is the credo of Daniel
Waldo Field, the young man of forty-hve,
millionaire, married and the directing
genius in several great corporations, whose
advice on business matters older men glad
" cherish, yet who considers his own
knowledge so incomplete that ne tucks his
green felt bag under his arm three times
each week and goes eagerly to his studies
at Harvard from Brockton to acquire that
broader and higher education in the
Graduate School of Business Administers
ton which was denied him in his youth.
In Brockton where Field is one of the
big men in the shoe manufacturing in
6ustrv. they point to him as an ideal type
of the man who worked his way from
youthful poverty TO affiuence il his prime;
al Harvard he is considered an exhibit,
pointed to with pride by the members OF
the faculty as the type Of business man de-
sired as special students at the business
school which is not by any means an insti-
tuition solely for young men just out or
college.
The Harvard business course was estab-
lished in March. 1908. Ito give thorough and
scientific instruction in the fundamental
principles of business organization and adj
ministration and TO present such range or
elective courses that each student may re-
ceive the special preparation which is suit
able TO the requirements of the business
career he purposes TO enter" These sent-
ments in an early prospectus conceded
with the principles Of the Brockton million
aire president of the Field-Lumbert shoe
manufacturing concern and one or two Gf-
fliated companies. director of national
bank. etc. and he quietly enrolled 20 as
certain what the courses on industrial or
ganization" and corporation finance" had
in store for him.
There is no more assiduOus student in the
course He listens three times each week
20 instructors, some Of them the heads of
corporations not as large or as successful
as his own companies, but nevertheless ac-
knowledged experts. Speaking of his in
terest in attending the lectures given by
business men considered to he no more
adept than himself. Mr.. Field said;
1t is tile cause Of some wonderment. I
understand. on the part of many people
that | should attend this excellent business
school. / an. Of course. familiar through
experience with most Of the principles ex-
pounded. but every day 7 hear something
new or have some idea In corporation work
that had occurred TO me but vaguely set
forth as a definite principle by the presi-
dent OF some great railroad. or another no
less competent lecturer. Then. again. The
benefit Of such associations are immeas-
urahle"
So the oldest student h the course. an
expert himself, iots down his notes ear
nestiy, and after class discusses the lecture
with the Instructor or other students with
never 8ageing interest
What are the advantages OF elderly men
taking practical college course in bust
ness "A Tribune representative asked the
millionaire student the other day, and Field
answered after son thought II will an
swer you In this way.
Harvard University g. Offering 90 its
graduate students ana men already In BUSH
ness great opportunity 90 accumulate
scientific facts rscardius modern business
methods and finance which have taken the