THE PROFESSION OF BUSINESS.

The Alumni Bulletin recently devoted an entire number to a description of the various phases of work in the Business School, a rapidly growing department of the University which should be subject to greater investigation on the part of the student who is choosing a professional school. Since its foundation in 1908, each year has resulted in a larger registration and a wider sphere of commercial instruction.

Following to a great degree the plan of the Law and Medical Schools, the field of business enterprise is regarded as a profession. In the past a man "went into business" because he wasn't fitted for anything else. Today, with the intricate developments of commerce, a man, to be successful, is forced to fit himself for a special branch of business. After the first year's work in required subjects essential for the understanding of any branch of this many-sided profession, the second year is devoted to scientific research in a specialized field.

In the few years that the Business School has existed, it has already gained the respect and confidence of many business houses throughout the country. One large South American exporting company in New York has made a standing agreement to take two of the School's graduates of high standing each year, and give them positions either in New York or in their South American branches. Many New England firms have been only too glad to offer their plants as laboratories for the research work of second-year men. Other firms, alive to the superiority of Business School graduates over the ordinary college graduate, are willing to give men good positions on the recommendation of the Business School.