The Washington herald., 1910-10-30
REAL ESTATE SCHOOL
PittSburg Institutions Will
Teach Subject.
REGULAR UNIVERSITY COURSE
VIII supply Demand Among Young
Men to Learn BuSiness-Every
Phase Covered by Professional In
struetOrs-InSurHnce Course Also
Onered-Evening School.
REGULAR UNIVERSITY COURSE

Convinced that a zeal demand exists
among young men 10 earn the theoreti-
cal side OF the real estate business. the
University OF Pittsburg has engaged in
structors and opened a regular univer-
sity course in the subject. Practically
every phase OF the profession is taken
up, and It is intended that amplifcations
viii be made as actual work demon
strates the need for changes
Is Regular Course.
The course is known as the real estate
course OF the evening school OF econom-
les, accounts, and finance. and is made
up Of a study OF realty values. the
changes In such values and the causes
for such changes. The development of
new and unimprOved property, lot plans,
suburban and country properties. Ease
ments, building restrictions. and other
membranes Building operations: laws
and regulations; party walls. architect
ure; building contracts. The proper To-
cation and management Of office and
apartment buildings Mortgages and the
functions OF building and loan associa-
tons. Leases. Principles OF the law OF
real property, conyeyancing. mortgages.
landlord and tenant, inheritances and
devises. trusts, dover rights. liens. SC.
The drawing up Of deeds. mortgages. and
leases; the essentials thereof. Land titles.
title examination, and title insurance
Assessment and taxation Of real estate.
City planning. Real estate brokerage.
buying, selling, leasing, appraising, man
agement Of properties collection of rents.
business methods, procedure and ethics.
OF Practical Value.
1t is intended 10 make the course OF the
greatest possible practical value. 1t Will
not only be valuable to active and pro-
gressive real estate brokers, but it will
also be of material assistance TO all real
estate owners and investors. ANY Young
man entering a business career will learn
In this course those things concerning
real estate which he Is certain to need at
some time or other in his business life.
The university has also instituted a
course ir the study Of insurance, nodded
along much the same lines as the real
estate study. The instructors engaged
are drawn from the ranks of men high in
insurance circles.
Insurance Course Also.
These courses are designed 10 give the
origin. development, economics. impor-
lance. and principles underlying insur-
ance. The first course extends to and
embraces the fundamental principles
common 10 all our present insurance sys-
tens, including the several kinds and
types Of policies, their legal effect. inter
probation. and construction: the mathe-
NAUTICAL problems involved and the work
of the actuary; the valuation premiums
the investment OF insurance funds, and
State regulation of insurance.
The second course is a study of the
features peculiar 10 the various branches
Of insurance, life, fire. accident, frater-
nal, title plate glass, old age and per-
manent disability, credit, &c; the appli-
cation of the various principles of each;
the duties of the various officers and en-
ployes. such as inspectors. medical ex-
aminers, general and special agents and
upon the rights and obligations OF the
parties 10 a policy. These courses are
supplemented by lectures upon various
phases of insurance by men prominent
In the insurance world. The lectures are
essentially practical and. emphasize the
methods employed in writing insurance
In New York also there is a movement
10 place definite knowledge Of the real
estate business before clerks and BUSH
ness men. The Young Mems Hebrew AS
sociation is the pioneer in this project
and has arranged a course of lectures
very similar to that used in Pittsburg.