Word: trading
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Changes in curricula are numerous. In many institutions new emphasis is being placed on foreign trade courses, and Spanish has come into wider favor. Some are teaching navigation for the first time. In nearly all stress is being laid on the courses which make for better citizenship and service to the State rather than for academic scholarship. These changes are more markedly a result of the war than the changes in entrance requirements. An acute shortage of teachers is apparent in some quarters. In practically all the institutions special preparations are being made to admit returned soldiers...
...Associated Harvard Clubs, whose delegates meet in Buffalo tomorrow for their annual two-day business session and outing, represent an organized alumni backing more powerful than that possessed by any other university in the world. Banking, the professions, and all branches of business and trade in all of America's larger cities will be represented in this gathering of Harvard men. And from the University's viewpoint, the most significant thing about their meeting is that it has not been called together to discuss the business, banking or professional problems of the nation, which, as a body of representative Americans...
Each student entering the bank under the terms of the fellowship will pursue a course of study including among others the following subjects: banking, foreign exchange, commercial geography, foreign trade, credit, forms and documents, and foreign languages. In addition to these classes which are held before and after the regular banking hours, special lectures and interviews are arranged by the bank's educational department. Examinations are held at stated intervals to determine the progress made...
...committee of the National Marine League has just been organized to place college undergraduates in temporary positions during their summer vacations, with concerns engaged in some maritime enterprise. The purpose of this is to arouse the interest of undergraduates in the shipping industry and foreign trade, so that a supply of trained and educated men will soon be furnished to meet the extensive needs of our new merchant marine...
...Marine League is following in the organization of this committee a plan adopted by both England and Germany for the advancement of their merchant marine. In anticipation of the inevitable economic conflict to come and the increase in foreign trade of the United States, our own merchant marine is being provided for in this manner. All applications from undergraduates for a position this summer should be addressed to the National Marine League, 268 Pearl street, New York City...