LIBERAL TRAINING ADVISED

In a talk on the "Choice of Studies in College" given to the Freshman class last night, Dean Gay of the Business School stated that the all important thing in achieving an education was not so much what courses were chosen but how those courses were studied. Approximately 50 per cent. of all Harvard graduates go into business but comparatively few of these enter the Business School. Many consider courses in Economics essential to the making of a business man, but generally the most efficient men are versed in the classics and other studies. Vocational training is all very well but it should be "vocational training in a very wide and liberal sense."

Professor C. P. Parker stated that the ideal way was to scatter twelve courses through three groups, all centered about one main idea.

President Lowell emphasized the points brought out by Dean Gay and Professor Parker. "Knowledge you get in college," he said, "is a very small part of what you will use in after life. "Knowledge will disappear sometime but wisdom will remain. Therefore, in choosing courses greater care should be given to the effect they will have on the quality of the mind rather than to the special training which they will afford.