r prospective vocations as
activities devoid of cultural association.

A few days ago a student who had already selected his profession and
was anxious to be about it confided to me, as many others have done,
how distasteful he was finding the task of "working off his culture."
Does any one really suppose that the sophomore who is "working off his
culture" under faculty compulsion, in order to get his college degree,
is really absorbing from his study anything which, as the faculty
assumes, makes him a better man and yet, as he himself believes,
contributes nothing to effectiveness in his profession? Or take the
case of the man who devotes himself with professional earnestness to
his two, three, or four years of college work--will he find that he has
invested his time and his money on a purely ornamental luxury that has
no relation to his later work?

The first great element of training which the university can give to
future business men is a mastery of scientific method as a means of
analyzing problems and synthesizing results. Quite as fundamental as
this is the development of an intelligent and sympathetic approach to
questions of human relationship. Only the beginning steps in the
direction of business efficiency can be taken while attention is
confined to the material and mechanistic side of business organization.
No secure basis for permanent efficiency can be established until we
are prepared to go deeply into the question of human motives and to
understand something of the complex reactions that come from individual
and group associations. Without such a basis we cannot hope for a
nationally effective business organization.

Business is a form of cooperation through which men exercise control
over natural forces and thereby produce things with which to satisfy
human wants. Any subject well taught, which gives an insight into human
relations or into nature and man's control over it, will help prepare a
person to deal with the intricate problem of human relations in
business--that is, if the student has studied the subject in an
attitude of mind to see its bearing on what he is preparing to do.

The question is not so much one of too few or too many so-called
culture subjects, but rather of the attitude of mind in which all
subjects are undertaken. It is a question of getting such a survey of
the great facts of human experience and of so pointing their
significance as to enable men to approach a problem of hu