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

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1 J El 1 j 1 j S a tUf UyuuzMiJuf Under the guidance of Rev. Joseph L. Davis, S.J., future leaders in economics and finance are trained within the stately Gothic walls of the Commerce and Finance Build- ing. The School is located on Lindell Boulevard.

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TIE SCHOOL OF It is the duty of a commerce school worthy of the name to prepare men of principle and of charity, who will give to the dealings of the business world the unselfish and bene- ficial tone of a science. Rev. Joseph L. Davis, S.J., Regent of the School of Commerce and Finance; George W. Wilson, Dean; Walter F. Gast, Assistant to the Dean. THE constant presence and pressure of economic, industrial, financial, and correlated factors in present day life are impressively evident. There is no cloister so secluded as to be immune from their reactions. There is a world-consciousness of a realism reaching even into the higher strata hitherto considered too tenuous for the mundane and the prosaic. There is an ever-increasing importance placed upon them as the troubled times leave little room for anything other than the mad rush for accumula- tion of possessions. It is the purpose of the Catholic school of business to counteract, as far as possible, the evil effects of this system and to substitute for it the sane methods advocated by Leo XIII and Pius XI. Logically enough, a center of thought and life, such as a university, must take cognizance of these factors and grant them a welcome and suit- able abode. Their significance and true value must be clearly appreciated and fully presented. To ignore them, to relegate them to the background, or to bring them under a panoply of antique cerements, would deprive an institution of higher learning of a form of expression and a type of service, which should be quickly responsive to the clear and unmistakable appeals of vibrant life. Page Twenty-six

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1 J Left — The lounge of the School of Commerce and Fi- nance offers a quiet and comfortable retreat for stu- dents between class periods. Right — A large and modern office is maintained in the Commerce School for the con- venience of its faculty mem- bers. Perceiving and properly appraising the opportunities opened by these economic factors and influences, universities throughout the country have inaugurated and developed courses and Schools of Commerce and Business Administration in ever increasing numbers during the last guarter-century. Indeed, other colleges and universities of the older and traditional type of curricula are yearly making room for the treatment of subjects which properly belong in the commerce field. St. Louis University began its School of Commerce and Finance in 1910 with a group of forty students; today it shows a registration of more than a thousand. Supplementary to those courses which bear directly on the adminis- tration of business, its principles, its practice, and its complex problems, adeguate treatment is given to the more effective attainment of the com- merce student ' s principal objectives. For it must be remembered that men of high moral standards and shrewd judgment, men of keen intelligence and determined action, are a necessity in the field of business at the present time. It is too often the case that men trained in the technigues of business and finance but lacking in the more sublime practices of Christian ethics are the products of the non-Catholic schools. As a type of education, the curriculum presented in this School has proved to be very satisfactory. While largely practical, it affords abundant Page Twenty-eight