Evening journal., 1921-03-03
continued from first page)

Former Judge ireorHe tray dlSo
spoke at this afternoons session.
As has been their custom. the
bankers first held a business meeting
in the club room OF the Hotel du-
Pont lasting from 11.30 this morning
until ! O'Clock this afternoon. Then
they moved to the duBarry room and
dined as gsests OF John II. DANNY,
president OF the Wilmington Clearing
House. Following the luncheon the
regular meeting was resumed.
George Massey Jones. OF Dover,
president OF the State Bankers As
ISOLATION, presided.
At this mornings meeting Mayor
Taylor welcomed the members OF the
association to the city Walter T.
Grosscup, manager OF the depart
ment OF bank examination OF the
Federal Reserve Bank, Philadelphia,
spoke on bank examinations; Albert
( \. Hogg. vice-president OF the Corn
Exchange Bank. Philadelphia. gave
an address on the investment OF
bank surplus, and Walter w. Hyn-
son, teller OF the Fruit Growers
National Bank. OF Smyrna, told OF
Urges School OF Business.
farm credits.
Dr. Hullihen. as were the other
! speakers, was warmly greeted when
he was introduced TO address the
bankers. He plunged Immediately
/ into his subject, saying:
For many years. higher educa-
tion in theUnited States held itself
aloof from the great commercial and
industrial world. Its only points OF
contact were. through the learned
/ professions OF law and medicine. and
/ these professions, too, shared In the
snobbish aloofness and considered
( themselves in a very marked degree
as class apart
only within the past twenty-five
years have we Americans come TO
anything like common realization
OF the truth that lies at the root OF
| the democratic ideal-that all OF the
| forms OF activity which are essential
/ 20 the perpetuation OF society are. in
/ their ultimate analysis OF equal
worth, and should be OF equal dig
nifty. Business. especially, has come
to be recognized quite universally as
standing on the same plane as vo-
cation with the professions once
known as the learned professions
"One OF the chief reasons for this
is, OF course. that the complex rela-
tionships and processes OF CONNER
cial and industrial life in modern
civilization have made OF business in
its higher forms also a learned pro-
fession, and one. moreover. upon
which rests and depends the whole
fabric OF human society as II is now
constituted. And men of today see
too clearly to yield less OF honor and
esteem TO this basic form OF activity
than they do to those others which
could not exist without Il.
False Pride Forced TO Yield.
so in the educational institutions
in which the false pride OF an out
worn tradition OF intellectual aris-
tocrary persisted longer than in the
rest OF the world. the illusion has al
most entirely disappeared, and mod
ern institutions Of higher learning
everywhere In America are establish
ing courses bearing directly upon the
principles. processes and facts upon
which business depends
/ About the year 1900. the first
business courses were added to the
work OF the standard colleges and
universities. Since that time they
have been included In one institution
after another. until a college or uni
versity is not considered completely
equipped for the service of the gem
eral public which lacks them. Espe-
cially is provision for such courses
necessary In state Institution.
whose function o. to afford higher
educational facilities FOR ail the chill
dren of the State who have COM
pleted the training given ir the pub
lie high schools. Nho have the desire
and ambition Tor further training.
/ Approximately three-f11rths %,
the graduates - our colleges TO-DAY
will go into businez1. irtlrfry 90
commerce in one fora ~ zrDthe-
Why should they rc- have ar ppDor.
tunity 10 elect c0-rres -aFrg AZ
easily recoer izatle .esrlrg 1por
their future lfe Ho-k. f- accifior q,
the required cclrseF l- rgrs seierci
and history arf -arT-aTef
Prom tre rc-rt - ar ec1cafci
p and one VINO rss lgrg felt q cg-lslf
cradle degree % corcerr abolt ~
, lack Of interes- - many students DO
their college WORK lr the Junior ar,
b. Senior years. the c0lrres ln busl
p ness and commerce AFFORD a mean
A OF meeting a very real problem.
y Real Value % Education.
o. 1T is probably conservative 20 ral
e that not more than half of the stu
dents Of our colleges. outside of m
n professional departments. even ID
e. their last two year,. take a real AM
fs.s Ia. -
r every college boy can see. or be mad
10 see, the value Of the ordinary gen
eral college courses for his antlcs
e pated career. That Il has a value
y and a very high vsfue. has beei
y amply proven. but the student VIII
! cannot himself realize this. who's
work in the courses he takes
= purely perfunctory. loses a very larg
! part OF that value and in too man
cases elects TO take. in his uppe
=, years at college, those subjects whicl
!, are known to require the smalles
= amount OF mental effort He the
puts into social and extra-curricula
y activities that energy and interes
= which young life and enthusiasm
must put somewhere, and whic
ought TO be given TO the task OF pre-
pairing oneself-intellectu NOR
ally. spiritually-for ones life-worl
~ The great importance OF interes
- In what one is studying, OF whic
~ President Eliot has been the mos
81 famous advocate, is conceded b
!, every one. (Many OF us believe, to b
-, sure that the completely electiv
/. system which Doctor Eliot advocate
- ana established, based upon thi
~ prlnciple. has had a ven, nnfnrt,,nnt