The sun., 1916-11-25

men successfully for commerce? The
subsection on commercial education
Of the Second Pan-American Scientific
Congress at Washington. December
"a. 1915, to January 8. 1915. wrestled
nightly with this interesting ques-
ton. and its proceedings r now
published In Bulletin, 1916. No. Is" Of
the bureau Of education. Department
Of the Interior. While the trade rela-
lions between North America and
South America formed its nucleus. the
discussion 6Jncerned itself principally
with the disability Of improvement
in this country's commercial methods.
and the educational means to It's
realization.
President James Of the University
Of Illinois expects ITO e the univer-
sity In the United States Of America
a centre for the, scientific study OF
business and for valuable scientific
contributions to our knowledge OF
business" But Dean Edwin +. Gay
Of the Harvard Graduate School OF
Business Administration says: THE
educational organization has not kept
pave WIN tuc uuuStA u Oi6otbSattca
since the great changes wrought by
the industrial revolution" Will doc
tors never agree?
Vocational training is depended upon
nowadays to take the place Of the dis
carded apprenticeship system of train
ing within the business. In CONNER
cial pursuits the consensus Of the
congress was that the training should
be professional. Secretary Goodwin
Of the Chamber Of Commerce Of the
United States says the school Of expe-
rience produces but a small proper
ton Of men with large business capac-
ity." and is a wasteful method Of
training. He sees in commercial edu-
cation the chief "hope for the future
Of American business" Mr.. j. F.
Crowell Of the Chamber of Commerce
Of the State Of New York combated
the profession idea with a quite un-
romantic ins!stence upon a fundamen-
tai and ineradicable difference be-
tween the aims and standards Of the
business mar and those of doctor and
lawyer. After this skirmish the SYM
postum got back to essentials.
In the next few addresses progress
was made in the direction OF agree
ment that we are doing pretty well
In the matter OF preparing men for
domestic business but were unpre-
pared for the new conditions in for
eign commerce set up by the war.
To new conditions business adjusts
itself automatically: but the impress
sion created by perusal Of the success
sive papers Is that the subsection on
commercial education believes in max
ing OF the colleges and universities a
first line OF defence In the wars OF
commerce.
An old fashioned professor would
have hesitated to accept the testimony
OF his ears as speaker after speaker
| ignoring culture confined the deini.
ton OF education 10 the territory Qi
trade. The bewilderment Of such ar
imagined listener could have beer
equalled only by the disgust of ar
also imagined old fashioned merchan,
prince on hearing business discussed
so blandly as a property Of the
schoOiman.
Perhaps both would have been al
least partially reconciled by tho
clImactic remarks by S. p. Capen
specialist in higher education Of the
Bureau Of Education of the United
States. who said that the natural prog
ress OF all professional education
was from direction by the practitioner
to administration by the teacher. or
ganizing the teaching content de
veloped by the practitioner. Som
pfactical sense shines through tn,