Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-24
WHARTON SCHOOL
BRANCH WILL BE
PERMANENT HERE
Dean McCrea Gives Wharton
Students Tips on Getting
Men For Next Year
Pipe Bending Executive Him
self Taking Course and
Brings in Others

DR.. r. C. McCrea, who recently re-
signed as dean of the Wharton school
of the University of Pennsylvania to
accept the chair of economies of Co.
lumbia University. appeared last even
ing for the last time before the stu
dents of the Harrisburg extension of
the Wharton school at a special meet
ing of the students
Dean McCrea talked over with the
students plans for getting a class for
this Fall and gave positively assurance
that the school was going to be a per-
manent institution in Harrisburg, Just
as long as the people of the city sup
port 1t.
Active work will be started in the
next month toward getting students
for the Falls class and the work will
be in charge of w. P. Raine, for the
faculty, committee of students, the
Rotary Club, through C. Harry Kahn.
architect; a committee from the Cham
ber of Commerce and individual busi-
nessmen. Among these is E. c. Frey,
chief accountant and one of the board
of directors of the Pipe Bending
Works, who is not only a student him
self, but brought five men from his
office into the school last Fall, and in
| tends bringing the rest of them this
fall. one of the other firms deeply
interested is the Elliott-Fisher Com
pany, of which several employees are
taking the course. This company, rec
ognizing the value of the course to
their men, has standing offer that
any employe who successfully COM
pletes the three years of work will at
graduation receive back from the COM
pany the entire cost of tuition in addi-
ton to any other increases in salary
they may receive in the meantime.
In Wilkes Barre and Scranton,
where the extension schools have been
established little longer than in Har-
risburg and Reading ana where the
work has had longer to be appreciated,
the Chambers of Commerce of these
cities have adopted resolutions and
taken the policy of employing students
and graduates of the extension schools
in preference to others. The business
men in these cities are vitally in
terested and it is hoped to arouse
some such spirit among the business
men of this city.
Dean McCrea was met last night by
r. J. S. Kishpaugh and Josiah Kline
and taken first to the Wharton Stu
dents Club. He expressed himself as
being very highly pleased with the
latter organization. This club has been
formed by the students in order to
provide a place for the fellows to
study. Tt has quarters at 213 Walnut
treet, near the school,, and has a
library of several hundred volumes on
finance, accounting, law, etc, along the
work of the course. These books were
secured through the cooperation of
DR.. T. L. Montgomery, State Librarian.
The club is supported wholly by the
students, large number of whom are
members. but there are a number of
young men to whom the burden of
paying tuition charges makes them
unable to contribute to the cause, but,
member or not, every student of the
school has the full privilege of using
the rooms for study and the use of the
library. AS it is necessary for the stu
dents TO do the most of their studying
on Saturday and Sunday. the club has
great advantages over the State and
city public libraries in that the rooms
are open at all hours every day. and
it has proved a great help to the stu
dents. The leaders in getting the or
ganization started were Josiah Kline,
Norman Rintz, Richard McAllister
I. j. 5. Kishpaugh and Bland Cornell.
In few weeks 1t is planned to have
one of the professors give a talk of
general interest to businessmen of the
city, and on that night the school will
have an open house, when everyone
interested will be urged to attend and
observe the work of the school,
The meeting was very enthusiastic
and was enlivened by the singing of
Pennsylvania songs. Robert w. Troup,
of the firm of the Troup Piano House.
and d graduate of the Wharton school
in Philadelphia, last Fall donated a
piano to the students, who use il dur
ing the intermissions in singing the
songs of Old Penn.