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The obvious interpretation is that the authorities realize the great 

 need of the student, but for one reason and another deliberately pass 

 by the opportunity. 



There is still much in the way of business management to be learned 

 by the student who has his eyes open. But it must be confessed that 

 most men are blind even to plainest of facts. The instruction is too 

 indirect, and the operation of the plans are so smooth that it attracts 

 no attention. The average student does not observe much of the 

 carefully planned system which operates to give him his education; 

 yet it would be well worth his careful study, as an example of organi- 

 zation. 



Sometimes the beauty of a picture is lost by concentrating the 

 attention on the technique of the artist. So, too, the teacher may fail to 

 hold his class if he explains the method by which he commands atten- 

 tion. The indirect training can not be made the major part. It then 

 loses all its value. There must be something direct and positive. 



One can not overlook the existence of some very excellent schools 

 for education in business administration, but these are not able to give 

 to every college man what little he may need to discover within himself 

 the ability for affairs which must in the end be developed in actual 

 life itself. More institutions are quite unnecessary, for they would 

 still leave the great mass of students as they are to-day. The need 

 is for the revision of existing curricula to the end that the average stu- 

 dent may at least know what business ability is, and whether or not he 

 himself possesses it in small measure or in large. 



