Pamphlets on Commercial Education

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1900
 

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Stran 81 - If you can keep your head when all about you . . . Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, . . . But make allowance for their doubting too...
Stran 81 - If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And which is more — you'll be a Man, my son!
Stran 23 - ... of the Wharton School of Finance and Economy of the University of Pennsylvania, so ably set forth by Professor James in his most admirable address before this Convention.
Stran 18 - The founder of the School expressed the desire that it should offer facilities for obtaining, — (1) An adequate education in the principles underlying successful civil government, (2) A training suitable for those "who intend to engage in business or to undertake the management of property.
Stran 29 - ... undertaken, and of strict fidelity in trusts. (c) Caution in contracting private debt directly or by endorsement, and in incurring obligation of any kind ; punctuality in payment of debt and in performance of engagements. Abhorrence of repudiation of debt, or inconsiderate incurring of public debt. (d) The deep comfort and healthfulness of pecuniary independence, whether the scale of affairs be small or great.
Stran 126 - ... school. For the most part, however, in engineering and law these opinions have disappeared. "So, too, I believe," remarks Mr. Vanderlip, in the address already referred to, "we will in time come to recognize, though perhaps not to so full an extent, that the door to commercial leadership will be through doors of those colleges and universities which have developed courses especially adapted to the requirements of commercial life.
Stran 26 - To provide for young men special means of training and of correct instruction in the knowledge and in the arts of modern Finance and Economy, both public and private, in order that, being well informed and free from delusions, upon these important subjects, they may either serve the community skilfully as well as faithfully in offices of trust, or, remaining in private life, may prudently manage their own affairs and aid in maintaining sound financial morality; in short, to establish means for imparting...
Stran 110 - You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." The desirability of a man depends even more on his personality than on the training he has had. 5. Does his academic training need only the technical training of your road to make him the new business man?
Stran 7 - ... in the counting-houses of the old-time merchants resembling the system of apprenticeship to trades. Comparatively few examples of this sort of instruction remain, nor is their deficiency made good by the so-called Commercial Colleges, for however valuable may be the knowledge which they impart, it does not suffice to fit a young man for the struggle of commercial life, for wise management of a private estate, or for efficient public service.

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