College Training and the Business Man (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from College Training and the Business Man<br><br>For almost three hundred years the American college has been seeking to serve the higher interests of American life. It has been, and still is, supposed to bear a special relation of preparation for what are known as the "learned professions." Banking, transportation, insurance represent three great labors to which men in increasing numbers and of greater power have in recent years been giving themselves. The purpose of the following pages is to present the advantage which these three vocations, which no one calls "learned," and which the work of general administration, may receive from the college. The purpose is in a way narrow; but I venture to hope that in trying to gain it I have succeeded in illustrating some advantages which the college may give to man as man. For, the great human worth of the college is incomparably superior to its worth in training efficient administrators.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.