The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-31
HARVARD TAXES UP BUSINESS TRAINING Attention to Practical Af- fairs Shows Trend of
 Modern Endeavor

Cambridge, Mass, January 31-fSpeciaI) That university is not merely a place where the learning of the past ages is stored and taught, but is bound up with the national life of the day, and is con- s'ahtiy assisting in the solution of ur- gent business and social problems. is it. lustrated by some of the activities in which Harvard university is now en- gagged. Business men and students of industrial affairs are more and more look ing to Harvard for the sort of authori ties leadership which it's trained experts ana scholars are equipped to undertake
 ne Harvard Graduate School of Bust ness Administration, for example, which Was established in 1908, is constantly ex- banding. This year it has 394 students record-breaking number, and it's en- tering class is particularly large The school has recently attracted public at tel ton by appointing professor of for elen trade, George Byron Roorbach of the University of Pennsylvania, having been selected to occupy this chair. which is believed to be the first of it's kind i'm the country, if not in the world. The school is giving many courses for busi- hess men of it's vicinity, in addition to these which are reserved for students at the school One of the new courses is an Latin-American trade, another is on the federal income tax, and third is on foreign trade and foreoign investments. During the past month lectures on indus trlai cost accounting, office organization and factory management have been add ca to the staff. An enterprising business man, Wallace Brett Donham, has been h1ted out or the vice presidency of one of the leading Boston banks to act as dean of the school.
 A few hundred feet from the office of the business school, in another of the his- toric college buildings, another depart ment is doing work of equal interest to business men The Harvard committee on economic research, with statistical staff Of F, is making systematic tabu1a- 'tion and analysis of Fundamental eco- ncmic statistics and is sending out the results of it's work each month ffl the form of a statistical service which num- bers among it's subscribers more than 200 business concerns. These concerns in- clude federal reserve banks other bank ing houses, bend houses and large cor porations such as the Steel Corporation and American International Corporation. The review contains every month price forecaster which is eagerly watched by business men.
 On the other side of the college yard are the offices of the bureau for voca- tional buidance, another center of activ- ity connected with modern business. The officials of the bureau are now giving special course in employment manage ment They are giving practical voca- tional guidance to the children in the up- per grades of the high school of a tety near Cambridge, giving the chilk.en an idea of the sort of work required in va
 rious businesses and occupations. and helping them to decide upon their careers
 The bureau is giving instruction to the ~foremen. of many large industrial plants so that these men will not only know their jobs better. but will know the gen eral economic background of these jobs and their relation 10 industry as a whole
 These are but few recent examples of the strides which Harvard is taking to ward leadership in the practical bust ness world of today. If one nad space tc | tabulate everything that is being done in the way of instruction and research | in the fields of government and econom.
 ics. it would make a long and varied list The policy of Harvard. to be sure | is to give a general rather than spe i cal education to it's college students 1 and to make them all-round citizens 1 rather than mere specialists, for Presi | dent Lowell believes that Harvard grad uates fill be better able to solve tn, problems of the future if they. hay ! studied those of the past. as well a, those of the present. Harvard is not for saking the educational ideal which i 1 has pursued since l6S6. and is not tryini 1 to appeal to those who want college ts
 teach them nothing more than how tt 1 earn their bread and butter. Yet liar yard, while 1t holds fast to it's olt standards. is taking an active part 1T modern practical affairs. There is nc mere encouraging sign that universitiei are alive to the needs and opportunitie of the new age.