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PRACTICAL ADVANTAGES OF A COMMERCIAL COLLEGE 
TRAINING. 
ABSTRACT OF A PAPER BY GEORGE SOULE, NEW ORLENAS, LA. 
LockKE tells us that ¢¢ the best way to come to truth is to examine things 
as they really are, and not to conclude that they are as we fancy of our- 
selves, or have been taught by others to imagine.” 
And Narada, a Hindoo sage, wisely says: ‘“ We must study to know, 
snow to comprehend, and comprehend to judge.” 
To reach a correct conclusion on the question before us, let us follow 
the wise counsel of these philosophers, and study and learn the facts of 
she case. Advancing on this line of thought, let us first, in logical order 
consider some of the human enterprises and industries of man which are 
carried on by virtue of the very knowledge that is imparted by a business 
college training. In the front line stands commerce, graceful and digni- 
fied, robed in royal purple, queen of human industries. In her wake, 
sivilization, religion, and humanity, the triune virtues of a people, march 
on to grander and to higher altitudes of glory. Commerce invades the 
wilderness, crosses oceans, and through its influences are founded king- 
Joms, empires, and republics. 
Now the essential qualifications necessary to carry on this commerce and 
to disseminate those principles which result in the social and physical im- 
provement of the world, and which make labor, production, manufacture, 
and exchange successful, require a special curriculum of study, which 
must be acquired either by the slow and costly process of apprenticeship 
and experience, or by schools established and equipped for this especial 
purpose. This special curriculum should comprise, for the merchant, the 
banker, and all classes of business men, in addition to a literary educa- 
tion, commercial law in all its general applications to partnership, to 
‘nsurance, to common carriers, to general contracts, to notes and bills, to 
principal and agent, to rights and remedies, etc. It should embrace 
‘ndividual and political economy, the ethics of trade, and the principles 
of sociology and of civil government; also correspondence, practical 
mathematics, book-keeping, corporation accounting, partnership settle- 
ments, etc. This course of study gives knowledge, system, order, accu- 
racy and discipline to the mind. It unites in action, the reasoning, the 
perceptive, and the moral faculties, which, with caution and acquisitive- 
ness, constitute the capacity to plan and devise those financial campaigns 
:hat vesult in just and honorable gains. 
Speaking for the business college, I can testify, from an experience of 
more than a third of a century, that the well-conducted business school 
of the present day does teach the above-named special curriculum of