The Washington times., 1916-10-25

w YHEN conservative American
NM universities open business
schools the uneducated as
.pirant for commercial sue
cess had best watch out" When Co
lumbis University. of New York, begins
to graduate her FIRST "B. s. In Bust
ness" In two Ner three years from now
there Is no doubt but that competition
for the product OF the ornery business
college" who has had no more than
grammar or high school education will
grow even more acute than 1t Is today.
For a mind trained to grasp quickly
the essentials OF any new undertaking,
brain conversant with the terms and
methods Of commerce and finance, will
be Of incalculable value In any business
office, and arrive. In short shrift, where
the unframed mind has come by dlnt
OF years of hard plodding and bitter
experiences. the results of undirected
ignorance.
At least that Is the hope in which
James Chidester Egbert, Phi. D., d.
rector of Columbia's new School of
Business. has planned the curriculum.
This school Is run under the auspices
Of the extension department of Column
bia University. Columbia also gives
under the department of extension
teaching. These courses are only a
small number of the large number Of
courses In other subjects given In this
department of Columbia University
open equally to women as to men. The
School of Business opening here this
autumn Is the latest diversion in Co
lumbias program Of extension work.
Interested In Women.
81 have always been particularly in
terested in the advance women are
making in the world of work and have
always been anxious that no distinc-
ton be made against them in opening
such a course" said DR.. Egbert. I'VE
cannot tell Just at this early period
how many women have come into the
school for the first session. The regis
tration has not yet closed. But from
the signs and symptoms available l
should say that the new business course
Ia being regarded with good deal Of
enthusiasm.
'srhe classes are open to students who
have spent two years In Columbia or
some other college of equivalent rank
and who are candidates for degree.
1T is going to mean this, that girl
or a man-may take the two-year coll
lege course and finish the last two years
with the business course. so that when
sheer he-graduates, 1t will have been
In about the same time as IL formerly
required for the classic course. and they
win be especially prepared to enter
business.
So this business school puts within
their reach at least desirable half of
what the college four-year term has to
OFFER and In the end of the same pc
Rod OF time puts them into touch with
life and an adequate equipment to 20
out and fight their battles in 1t. The
course Is either OF two or three years.
and the students have a free choice of
studies. subject to the approval of the
director.
Special Courses Planned.
''Every student entering business
should know something about general
economics and should also have COM
mand OF some OF the foreign languages.
Students. however. who desire a gen.
eral business course will find such a
curriculum mapped out for them. 9th
ers. preferring to specialize. will find a
sequence of courses in a variety OF sub
Jects, as, for example, accounting
banking. finance, transportation. COM
merce and trade, business organization
and management, advertising. sales
manship and the like. At the end OF
the second year of this special work the
degree of bachelor of science will be