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INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL, AND FINANCIAL INTERESTS. 793 
the business school to all classes of business men ; and this, for the reason 
shat all classes require in their respective lines of business, as a supple- 
ment to their profession or trade, some knowledge, as previously stated, of 
the customs of trade, the laws of business, of contracts, of commercial 
paper, and instruments of writing, of shorthand and type-writing, and of 
account keeping, etc., etc. The business college is not intended to sup- 
plant other schools, but to supplement them. 
The business college recognizes the fact that the school of experience 
occupies the highest altitude of all educational institutions. But while it 
recognizes this truth, it bases its claims for usefulness to mankind, and to 
a place of honor among its educational sisters, upon the self-evident fact 
shat there should be a preparatory course of study and training given to all 
persons whatever may be their vocation in life, before they matriculate in 
she great school of experience, where the instruction is limited to one 
oranch of knowledge, and the tuition always costly. 
The commercial course supplements that of all other schools, and is 
equally as beneficial to the graduates of the university, as it is to those 
whose genera! education has been limited to the public school. All univer- 
sity alumni must pursue a course in some technical school, such as law, 
medecine, theology, or business. 
A business college education is of special and practical advantage to a 
large class of industrious young men and young women, whose time is too 
limited and whose treasury is too small to allow them to pursue any 
literary or scientific course of study, which would require from two to five 
years. 
The functions of the business college are well defined and limited. By 
holding the standard of its own curriculum high, and by doing its limited 
work faithfully and well, it will continue to increase its practical advan- 
tages to the business world, and will merit the kindly favor of all right- 
minded men. 
I'HE RELATION OF BUSINESS INSTRUCTION TO INDUS- 
TRIAL. COMMERCIAL, AND FINANCIAL INTERESTS. 
ABSTRACT OF A PAPER BY A. D. WILT, DAYTON, OHIO. 
IT may be safely claimed by the commercial colleges of the United 
States that there are to-day in the business enterprises of the country not 
less than one million of their graduates. This will include thousands of 
heads of firms and owners of business, whose training and the boundless 
opportunities our country affords have made them wealthy, independent 
men. 
The relationships, therefore, between the business college of this country 
and the commercial, industrial, and financial interests of the country are