Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-16
ROTARY CLUB HEARS
Of PIANO MAKING
Frederick P. Stieff, Jr., of BaIti-
more, Delivers Lecture
to Members
ACTION ON WHARTON SCHOOL
Members Are Urged to Co.
Operate; Committee
Continued
ACTION ON WHARTON SCHOOL

| The Harrisburg Rotary Club was
entertained last evening by l.. Frank
Bass. Harrisburg manager for the
Stief piano firm, at the store, "a
North Second street After taking a
look at the $1,000 gold Rotary wheel
OF the California clubs, the members
listened to very excellent illustrated
lecture on piano making by Frederick
r. S1eh, Jr., of Baltimore, youngest
member of the Stieff firm. Newell
Albright. the well-known pianist. en-
tertained with several we'll executed
numbers and refreshments were
served
The committee appointed to work
for the establishment of a branch of
the Wharton School of the University
of PENNSYLVANIA in Harrisburg report
ed that its campaign is progressing
faVorably and 1T was continued.
Urges Club to Work
DR.. Samuel z. Shope. the eye, ear
and throat specialist, who is himself
graduate of the University. and who
worked his way through college, pre-
sented in the Tachograph, the follow
ing urgent appeal to the club to do
its level best to bring the Wharton
School to Harrisburg:
Time was when the approaches to
our universities were barred by in
surmountable, impregnable fortidca-
tions which no one might enter except
! the patrician who had three-fold tails
man-staton. money and leisure.
AS some Of us have reason to know
and be thankful. these medieval ideas
in institutions of learning have been
gradually replaced by the broad prin-
ciple of the greatest good to the great
The college professor has come
down out of the serene heights of
G purely "a afademiS bni nc distractions and pro-
his applied sciences. What is the re-
suit, for example. in agriculture?
6 bn sFh RRr9Eeed eon @gr fho
methods of the Egyptians. All that
has been changed by the college pro-
fessor and his habit of prying open
penetrable secrets of nature. The col
lege professor has left nature very few
chemistry of the soil. no longer occur
in civilized countries. Productivity has
been doubled land thought to be worth
less mas been reclaimed and made valu-
been given market value.
"A few years ago the college pro-
business world, and endeavored to re-
claim and render fertile and productive
the routine-b bound brain of the office
worker
AT the inception of this new educa-
tional enter~rise. the professor en-
deavored to show that business is a
law theology or engineering. and that
TO meet the demands which modern
business imposes upon its followers
necessary. Formerly such instruction
as was to be had in the hard
school of experience was all that was
ness man. but in this day of specializa-
tions this is entirely INADEQUATE to
make anything of a man but a routine
Plodder. destined sooner or later for
young man in the employ of even the
most progressive and successful busi-
with and limited to the details of one
OF thousand branches of his FIRMS ac-
tivities, that he has no time or oppor-
tunity to become acquainted with the
basic principles underlying the busi-
ness as a whole, and consequently will
never be able to work out any of the
His relation to the business as a whole.
is like that of a man placed immedi-
ately in front of a building architectur-
ally grand. He would get the detail
most, but would miss the beauty. the
broad fine lines of the structure in its
correlation of the many parts that
make up the magnificent edifice.
University Co-operates
Realizing this condition, the Uni
versity of PENNSYLVANIA declared her
self ready and anxious to cultivate
business men; that she wanted to fit in
and serve the daily life of the COM
munlty
ITO this end the Wharton School of
Finance was esta blished and the resulta
| in the business world though perhaps
! not so well known to the general pub
| lie, are just as marvellous as those in
| agriculture cited above.
THE next step was to make such in
| struction available to the man who was
actively engaged in business and could
not devote his daylight hours to a uni
versity course. The night school in
Philadelphia met this need. How adj
mirably il did so you NAV learn by
reading the booklet entitled, The
Money Value of a College Educa ton
! Feeling that they owed a duty to
| the State of PENNSYLVANIA outside of
/ Philadelphia and realizing that thou
sands of men would gladly avail them
selves of the broadening influence of
| course In the night branch of the
| Wharton School of Finance and that
these were denied the privilege be-
cause unable to go to Philadelphia the
university authorities decided that, in
| asmuch as the mountain could not
/ n Mohamp1ed Moha uould