St Louis University - Archive Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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HE general THE SCHOOL OF purpose of the School of Commerce and Finance is to present a type of education which emphasizes the study of the principles and practices contained in the field of economics, industry, finance, marketing, ac- counting, and taxation. Of no less importance and strongly supple- mentary, cultural and ethical stud- ies complete its field. Rev. Joseph L. Davis, S.J. , George V. Wilson. Dean Regent of the School of Com- of the School of Commerce merce and Finance. and Finance. The present-day development of these fields of vital human concern leaves no doubt in the minds of thoughtful men as to their intrinsic value. Their place and fitness in any comprehensive scheme of education is clearly seen and acknowledged. Even a passing glance at the issues and problems which are forcing themselves into the councils and legislatures of all nations must convince an observer of the necessity of an under- standing and training in the economic and industrial aspects of modern life. The courtvard of the School of Commerce and Finance. Today the vast development of human activities in economical and industrial fields presents numerous opportunities for men of talent and training. Definite preparation for distinct careers, for specific accom- plishments, for adaptability to chang- ing conditions, is extensively de- manded. The program of the School of Com- merce and Finance scarcely lacks real interest. It can hardly be dull. It never is, as a wag once put it, a course in glorified bookkeeping. Somehow, someway, even to the UNIVERSITY FORMAL Page Ten

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SCHOOL The Graduate School is as impor- tant as it is unobtrusive. It sets the norm for highly specialized training, aiming at producing an expert in a given field. It caters only to those students who give promise of achieve- ment in one or another branch of learning. Graduate studies by their very nature lie in untrodden paths along new fields. By analogy the student must be a pioneer, mapping out his course of studies with no one to guide him and advise him. He must be resourceful and capable of making progress for himself. He is on his own with no one to push him. In the training of its apprentice scholars, the teachers of tomorrow, a graduate school, and above all the Catholic graduate school, can- not forget that without a synthesis of the is and ought, without a combination of observation and evaluation, it is impossible for a man to come to himself. When standards and values, ethical as well as intellectual, are banished, is there any wonder that students drift from course to course seeking hopelessly some answer to their inner restlessness? Men and women broadened by a reasoned general training may go through the world with much more peace of mind and certainty because they have approached nearer the truth. Sodality Hall, a familiar sight to Arts, Graduate, Social Service, and Education students. UNIVERSITY FORMAL Page Nine

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COMMERCE AND FINANCE beginner there comes a sense of interest, of competition, oi an on- coming struggle of wits in a great battlefield worthy of any man ' s prowess. There is an ill-de- fined suspicion on the part of those who stand without, that the stu- dent who pursues such a curriculum seldom attains in a large way that objective vaguely termed life. Yet somehow that same student when he has burgeoned into the lull plumage of a business man, often becomes a warm patron of art, education, science, so- cial uplift, religion, and a host of other beauti- The new School oi Commerce and Finance, one of the more modern Ituildiniis ol the University. ful things that shed rays of sunshine across this vale of tears. It would seem to any man of extended experiences wellnigh impossible to obliterate life ' ' from any large field of human activity. Few of us have seen bankers, manufacturers, or merchants who resembled Tut-an-khomen. The student of Commerce and Finance knows that somewhere on the road he will encounter lite in whirlwinds and deluges. The market place, the counting house, and the temples of industry have little in common with mausoleums, and the funeral dirge seldom emanates from their teeming and vibrant purlieus. UNIVERSITY FORMAL P.ige Eleven