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INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL, AND FINANCIAL INTERESTS. 795 
tion of these new ideas between the colleges and their alumni is con- 
sinually and easily made to the great advantage of both. 
Not only are the results of the state, national, and intermediate con- 
ferences thus quickly brought to the notice of this great body of students 
and active business men, but the current decisions of the courts in com- 
mercial, industrial, and financial affairs are disseminated in the same way. 
[t is on these accounts, as well as the others before alluded to, that the 
influence of commercial colleges in the commercial, industrial, and finan- 
cial world is constantly and highly advantageous. 
Not only is the narrower work of book-keeping, but also the broader 
labor of the management of business affairs, better done in every city or 
region in which the best class of these colleges are training the young for 
business pursuits. The most systematic labor-saving methods of account- 
antship are in use in the counting-rooms, and the broadest and most 
effective lines of management are followed up. 
These claims for the advantages to the business world that result from 
the work of these business colleges are supported by the testimony of 
many of the prominent managers of the great industries, and by other 
high authorities. 
This elaborate plea for business college training would not be justifiable 
or necessary were it not that these colleges, being private institutions, are 
not so conspicuous to the public eye as the great endowed scholastic and 
church schools are, and therefore the great and salutary influence they 
have had in supplying modern business the great body of trained workers, 
which has made possible the enormous magnitude of our colossal under- 
takings, is not easily seen and appreciated. 
It will not be inferred from the foregoing that those now charged with 
the responsibility of commercial teaching undervalue the advantage of 
she broadest literary training to the business man and to the business 
world. When the late President Garfield, himself one of the broadest 
scholars of his time, a graduate of the noble college he highly honored, 
compared the training that Harvard gave to the training given by the 
commercial colleges, he said he was animated not less with a profound 
sense of the power that broad scholarship gives in business, as well as in 
‘he professions and in all human relationships, than with a regretful 
recognition of the fact that the graduates of the best American literary 
colleges have not generally had the specific training that would enable 
‘hem to quickly and successfully take up the problems of the great 
yusiness affairs.