The Collegiate School of Business: Its Status at the Close of the First Quarter of the Twentieth CenturyLeon Carroll Marshall University of Chicago Press, 1928 - 468 pages |
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Page 52 - States for training toward a business career, his immediate and unhesitating answer would refer to the "commercial college," and probably to that alone. This institution is peculiarly American ; nothing exactly like it is known in other countries. It embodies the defects and excellencies of the American character, and typifies in itself a certain stage in our development. Its almost spontaneous origin, its rapid and wide diffusion, its rough adaptation of primitive material to the satisfying of immediate...
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Page 13 - A college should require for graduation the completion of a minimum quantitative requirement of 120 semester hours of credit (or the equivalent in term hours, quarter hours, points, majors, or courses), with further scholastic qualitative requirements adapted by each institution to its conditions.
Page 55 - 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...
Page 153 - Fifth, determine the number of the most important items of the resulting list which can be handled in the time allotted to school education, after deducting those which are better learned outside of school.
Page 189 - Stated in terms of vocational preparation, such a school should aim to prepare its students ultimately to become (i) responsible business executives; or (2) professional or technical experts such as accountants, statisticians, commercial secretaries, and members of governmental regulatory bodies; or (3) teachers of business subjects. Stated in terms of social outlook, a collegiate school of business should encourage the students to see business tasks in the larger perspective of social values.
Page 160 - At the beginning of the twentieth century the first serious attack upon the claim of wholesale transfer was made by Thorndike, and his criticism has since been elaborated by many investigators. Since that time the educational world has been superficially divided into three classes. Naturally there are those who view any attack upon the transfer of training with suspicion and in some cases with alarm. There is a second group, of very large proportions, that maintains essentially that there is no transfer....
Page 37 - As subjects of our research we have used a group of approximately 500 adolescents attending a Midwestern private school. The grade range covered by our group extends from the end of the sixth grade to the end of the senior year in high school. Because of the broad purpose of the research, we have inaugurated an extensive testing program involving the assessment of traditional qualities, such as intelligence and psychological health, and including attempts to assess less conventional dimensions such...
Page 54 - The first school of this high commercial character in this country was the Wharton School of Finance and Economy of the University of Pennsylvania, which was established in 1881. Its purpose, as stated by the founder, was " 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...