New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-01
PAYS TO STUDY THERE
Commerce Students at N. Y. u.
Average $1,000 a Year.
EMPLOYERS PRAISE COURSE
Registrar Submits Report Show.
ing Their Belief in Com.
mercial Education.

DR.. Elmer Ellsworth Brown. chancellor
elect Of New York University. will find one
school under his supervision where all
except per cent OF the students In at
tendance work while they learn. long,
detailed report on conditions In the New
York Universitys School OF Commerce,
Accounts and Finances has just been sub
mitted by Or. George c. Sprague. registrar
Of the university. and was made public yes
terday.
DR.. Sprague in his report makes strong
plea for commercial education. and declares
in unreserved terms that the benefits de-
rived from the pursuit OF broad pro-
fessional course of study are not remote
or conjectural." but are rather "imme-
diate and certain" He bases his conten-
ton on the practice Of business men IN
this city and has this to say:
That the employers Of the city OF New
York are inclined TO believe In the sound
ness of this contention Is shown by the
| fact that many OF the students or the
/ school are in attendance at the instance or
their employees. who find the training or
the school advantageous 10 themselves as
well as to their employees who are stu
dents. It Is also shown in the great de-
mand by employers upon the school for It's
students and graduates as employees
| The facts revealed In the registrars re-
port show an interesting trend In present
/ day educational methods. New York Uni
versity's School of Commerce owes great
measure Of it's success TO Joseph French
Johnson, who has been dean OF the schoo!
since 1913. and was, because OF his great
! constructive work in the school. one OF the
| leading candidates for the chancellorship.
That one of Dr. Browns biggest problems
will be in caring for the expansion OF this
school was made certain by the registrar s
report yesterday.
During the year 1910" said DR.. Sprague,
"the students earned an average salary of
ss5 IS a month, or sl,02S 96 for the year"
! Continuing, DO said:
There are !. $50 students in attendance at
this school The total earnings, therefore,
amounted TO S.iSl,0to. While they were
earning this amount the students were De
voting on IN average nine hours week
to classroom attendance at the university
and a like amount os time TO preparation
for their recitaticns.
The number of students who are college
graduates is ~ per cent. Regarding the
goes on as follows:
The average age Of the students Is shown
by the report 20 he 23.ll years. the average
business experience 66i years. and the age
at which the average student left schoo.
and began work 1873 years. Concerning
cir education prior 20 entering the School
Of Commerce, IS, or ~ per cent OF the en-
tire number reported that they were col
lego graduates: 49, or 5213 per cent. that
they vere graduates OF high schools hav-
no q
were graduates OF business colleges. and
81 or 81 per cent. were graduates OF gram
mar schools, most of whom had taken one,
two or three years or hlgn scno .ho, wo ,s.
ouirements by taking regents eXamina-
tons.
Counting college graduation as the
equivalent Of sixteen years OF study, high
school graduation as the equivalent or
twelve years and grammar school gradua-
ton as the equivalent Of eight years, the
report shows that the amount of prepara-
ton Of the average student was 113 years
or the equivalent OF three and one-quarter
years OF standard high school course.
The range of places that these New York
University students hold IS wide. Some are
accountants some bookkeepers and clerks
a few managers OF firms, and others re-
porters for newspapers. Several are ste
nographers.
DR.. Sprague says that instruction is ef-
fective and practicable because, according
to a table which he presents in the report,
students who spent one year in the school
received an increase one-sixth larger than
those who were not in the school, and
those who had spent two years received
an increase one-seventh larger than those
who had been in the school only one year
and one-third greater than those who had
not been I'm the school at all. DR.. Sprague
also substantlates this on the ground or
rapid promotions of students while they are
o,.epdinc no school