EDUCATION, COMMERCIAL

special instruction for the purpose of preparing students for a busine career. ~This type of education twenty years ago was left almost entirely to the private busine schools, or colleges, but within recent years it has been taken up by the public high schools. Busine courses are now available in most high schools throughout the country, and about a third of all the enrolled students are taking them. Special commercial high schools have been established in many of the larger cities, notably in Boston, Ma ., Cleveland and Columbus, O., New York City, Portland, Ore., San Francisco, Cal., and Syracuse, N. Y. Where such courses are given about a quarter of the time of the students is devoted to technical training in commercial practice, another quarter is given to related work and half the time is taken up with general culture. The technical training usually consists in instruction in office practice, bookkeeping, stenography, typewriting, the operation of office appliances and salesmanship. The courses in the private commercial colleges and schools differ from those given in the public high schools in being more direct, no time being given to any study not related to the object in view. For this reason an average busine college affords in six months the instruction covering four years in a high school. In 1922 there were 1,283 such schools or colleges in the United States.