Evening star., 1922-10-14
Growth Reflected in Real Estate and Building News

ment can be made in the manner OF
conducting these courses, pending the
development Of standard texts, and
this is the point l desire to emphasize
as important.
For the present your best work
will be accomplished If you concen-
trate your efforts on the further de-
velopment of purely elemental
course. reserving for a.little later the
development of a more advanced
course. The distinction between an
elemental and an advanced course l
might explain in this way: An ele-
mental course should deal with pure
ly the mechanics Of the real estate
business, with such introductory ref.
erence to the more theoretical ana
see intelligently the relation between
those principles and the mechanics.
1t might be somewhat more concrete
if stated that an elemental course
should convey such information as
you would naturally attempt to i'm:
estate office who had no previous
training or experience in the work.
"The average student registering
for a real estate course is seriously
seeking some concrete information
pertaining to the real estate business.
For this reason something more than
mere lectures must be provided to IN
sure maintaining the students inter-
est throughout the course. While our
Washington course is given under the
auspices of the local branch OF the
Y. NJ. c. A.. the complete outline of
lectures, advertising circulars and
newspaper publicity are prepared In
the offices of the Real Estate Board,
the Y. NJ. c. A. being merely the In
strumentality used for carrying on
the work. The lectures are delivered
by members of our board, with one or
two exceptions. where we have had to
call in city officials. and 1 personally
conduct the course, filing the role OF
instructor.
Local Conditions Important.
Boards fortunate enough to have
branches of the Y. NJ. c. "A or COM
mercial colleges in their cities can
with little trouble make arrange
ments to inaugurate a real estate
course. For such institutions it will
prove profitable and, with the CO.
operation of the local real estate
board which would furnish the
speakers. the institutions would not
be called on for any work unusual
20 them. In such cities. where no
educational institutions OF this char
acter are available, the board could
undertake the work as a part of
it's routine activities and the extent
TO when II was ueNeiOpcu "ouiu
depend entirely on local conditions
and the size of the board.
while lectures now being given
throughout the country are in the
main prepared and delivered from
the local viewpoint. 1t should not be
impossible to gather from synopsis
of many of them a rather general
treatment of the basic principles as
foundation for a definite and stand
ard course that might be used in all
sections of the country. The Ma
tional Association could at perhaps
little expense secure educators. who.
in collaboration with the proper COM
mittee. would draft texts in keeping
with standard texts used in other
educational work and at the same
time be constructed from the prac-
tical standpoint which in almost
every case is the basis OF the indl-
vidual lectures.
1.-The progress being made In WASH
ington in this work has shown such
splendid results that it occurred to
mo to speak to you for few mo-
ments In the hope that it might be
a slight contribution to the splendid
work of your body and at the same
time bring to your attention some
of the details of this very important
work with the thought that it would
create an interest in the subject and
tend to encourage some OF those
boards who up to the present time
have not undertaken such work to
give it serious consideration"