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THE. HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1914.
subordinate are usually of such a kind as to deaden the spirit of) initiative and the inclination to: bear responsibility?
the
Here is this vast field of! Au orly-mamoript of Beetho. Prof. Ashley is head of the human activity which we call ven's ring Quartette, Op. 18, Faculty of Commerce at Birming business. More and more it No. 1, which was the property of
him University, and in the fint dominates Lumen thought Jisne of what promises to be a and action: more and more Barou Caccamisi-Merchesi, has very valuable review. "The Inter- does production come to depend been sold in Berlin by auction, national Review of Commerce on for £95. It was presented by and Industry," edited by that securing of markets depend upon
markets, and dloos Beethoven to bie Kussian friend well-known expert on commerce, economy of production. Every Ferdinand Amonda, of Talsen. Ashley says......
Mr. T.Swinborne Sheldrake. Prof. where the same questions of Doar Riga, and on the front page
#policy are presenting th melves of the part for the first violin there, My purpose in this article is to to business men-questions of the are ren lines in Beethoven's hand-whether the time has not now facture or supply, questions of ak English business men character and scale of mann writing This manuscript, says the Tim a correspondent, con nips come when it will be worth while,pitalisation, questions of lay- even for them. to take higher ng out of works, questions of the original version of the quar-commercial education' teite Two years after "making
a little marketing and sele, questions of the present Beethoven again wrote more seriously. And when I say price, questions of divisible profit to Amenda, asking him not to
seriously. I mean not as some-and reserves, questions of labour play it any more because he had thing that has to do primarily<rganisation, and so on and so on. altered it very much and had with another social clara, but as Is it not reasonable to suppose unly just learnt how to write quarieties properly.”
thing intimately ffecting that the training of the men who themselves and their kinsfolk and are going to decide all these their immediate circle. Commer- questions and guide all these Liquid Carbon.
cial education has too long meant complex activities should have Professor Lummer, the well in England a more or less phil-ome sort of relation to their known physicist of Breelsu, has anthropic undertaking, to be future tasks? And if so, is it rehabilitated a great French encouraged by gaines subscrip- not the duty of the universities to savant, and rediscovered a secrettions and ten-abilling prizes, and come to close quarters with so of Nature" dispated for seventy carried on in evening classes for large a part of national life? years, by successfully liquefying the production of efficient clerks There are now Faculties of carbor. Simultaneously he has an affair of typewriting and Commerce not only at Birming brought science near to the actu. shorthand rad book-keeping and ham, which was first in the field, al natural process which has commercial Franch. All this is but also at the Universities of resulted in the production of very useful, no doubt, but it is Manchester and Leeds,, at the diamonds.
on an altogether different plane National University of Ireland, Professor Lummer hos liquefied from what the Gormans and and at Belfast University. There a carbon pencil in sa are lamp Americans are doing. Commer-are courses for a like purpose at be superheating in a practical cial education will never be taken the London School of Economics; Vacuum. He hojes now to co-seriously, in my sense, by the there is an Economics Tripos ni struct a vessel capable of resistingdirectors and managers of busi-Cambridge; and quite recently, 300 atmospheres wherein ho willness concerng until they begin to understand, Oxford has in be able to aaperont carbon to think of it d having to do with troduced a Commercial diplom liquefaction point (4,000 to 6,000 their own sons.
|open only to graduates.
degrees), and then allow it slowly I am myself an academio per All I want just now to indicate to cool off. The liquid drop-on; and when I argue for com- is that institutions are already in pings, crystallizing as they fall,mercial education of a university existence in this country, doing will if the experiment succeeds, standard' I know perfectly well for some few dozens of students. be natural diamonds. The lique that I can be regarded, fairly and with limited moan what a faction of carbon was asserted in enough, as simply arguing for my core of American and German 1849 by the Frenchman Desprez; own show. Yet I have knocked colleges are doing for thousands whose conclusions were doubted about the world a good deal; and with ample equipment. and denied both by his own tave taught young men in the countrymen and by the German oldest and newest of universities alike in England and in Ireland, Professor Lehmann as late as 1895.
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King George and and the
Top Hat.
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Oxford, Toronto, Harvard, and Birmingham; and I have been favoured by the friendship of good many business The announcement that it is think I know the business uan's the desire of the King that all point of view, and if he will take Guards' officers in mufti should the trouble to read what I have wear black coate and silk hate to say, I think I can make out a when in the neighbourhood of good case for his consideration. Buckingham Palace reoms
I would ask business men, to point to Royal approval of recent the first place, who have got son attempts to reinvest the silk hat approaching the age of seventeen with its one-time "popularity.nd destined for a ommercial Many have assorted that the glory life, if they quite know what to of the "topper" is on the wane; di with them. A boy goes to a
in
All that Faculties of Commerce,
have hitherto done has been miserably small as crimpared with our American and German exem- plara. This is because, with the exception of a few specially open- minded men here and there, like the late Mr. Arthur Chamberlain, the commercial world-I must Say it once more-has not hitherto taken the movement anything rivale. And yet business like so seriously as its for sign business all the world over: and These foreiga rivals of ou's are not exetly fools.
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that the coming of the lounge public school or grammar school; JOHNSON WON'T FIGHT
uit and the popularity of the 10ee not particularly distinguish motor-car had brought about its himself in classics or mathema- downfall from shiny pre-eminenc. tics, but geis, let us say, into the But the cylinder of civilisation" Fifth. Soon after ho reacher is renstorting its in its centen-venteen the father feels it in
Repudiates Challenge issued Manager.
Jack Johnson has repu 'ated
ary year, and the hate 8 Bebout time to think about his the challenge issued by his mana- rejoicing. Inquiries of Messread's future. Uatil be is twenty ger in his name to meet any hoxer Lincoln, Bennett, London, elicited or so, he can seldum be given any in the world for £4,000, or £8,000 the statement that more silk ba's particularly interesting or responde. are being sold to-day than eversible or even instructive duties in before. The demand had been the office or works.
most marked, even bearing in How are the years to be got mind that this is the tall ba over between seventeen or eigh season. Professional men have of teen and twenty or twenty-one? accessity remained true to the old the boy can rarely be kept un- love. Now it is the turn of the der the father's or uncle's eye man in the street to adopt con-with, the increase in the size ventional head wear once more and complexity of undertakings and prove his deference to the and the substitution of the joint- dictates of fashion.
He has been touring the music halls in Ramania, and on his re- turn to Paris be was met by Dan MoKetrick and the correspondent. of the Sporting Life, who ques tioned him with regard to the challenge which appeared in the Vutin in the form of a letter from kis manager.
"I know nothing," said John- eon, "of such a letter. In fact, existence to me. I do my own. you are the first to mention its
business, and when I want to say anything I will say it myself."
atook company for the private firm, personal supervision becomEN Women as Ranchers. every year harder to arrange With the view to demonstrating And to see that a young man, that women can make a living out away from the father's eye, is of the land, and also of according neither neglected nor unduly the opportunity of seeing how it favoured is really, in many cases, owed on the subject of Johnson's An interesting coversation fol- can be done, the Colonial Intel-exceedingly hard. ligence League has purchased a
plans for the future. The famous What I have ventured to say to portion of the well-known Cold-parents who have cousulted me ing to enter the ring, and would boxer said that he was quite will- stream Ranch near the City of about sanding boys to the Com do so against any man in the Vernon, in the Okanagan Valley mercial Faculty of the University world, if he was given what he of British Columbia, and has of Birmingham and, I doubt not, thought was the proper price for opened a farm settlement for the representatives of some other his services. Of course, he has women thoroughly trained in the universities would say the same made that some statement very minor agricultural arts, poultry--is this: I do not pretend that I rearing, bee-keeping, dairying, sm quite sure I can do the ideal he did not declare that he had ofton; in fact, at all times when and vegetable and small frait ly best thing for your particular retired from the ring for ever. farming. The "Princess Patricia boy, but I am confident that, un. The only trouble is and, we sap Ranch," as it is named, is some less you are most fortunately thing in the nature of an experi- situated, I can do a good deal pose, will be to find a promoter mental station, where girls already better for him, during the years the amount Johnson styles as enterprising enough to put np initiated into the elements of agri-between school and business re culture can familiarise themselves sponsibility, than you can, with local conditions of growing
And then I would ask this
"proper" for his services. Johnsor has an inflated notion of what his services are worth, and anlass ho
and marketing their produce. question of heads of business: Do is actually forced into the ring to No male help is permitted. Under you find a sufficient number of defend his title, or relinquish it, the able guidance of the Hon. young men coming along whom Mrs. N. Grosvenor, the executive
you can put into positions which we do not believe that he has any committee of the League held a require judgment and initiative? serious intention of accepting a bazaar at Grosvenor House in the A certain number of men of force likely to make him a "back- contest with any boxer who is summer, and raised $1.500 thus and ability will always be mak providing most of the nocesa tying their way upwards from the funds for the work. Another lower ranks. Every such man £1,000 is yet required, and in ought to be welcome and find a TF you have lost your appetito order to meet this necessity a sale career. But are there enough of dainty dishes at the ALEXAN- one of the big Variety of of old glass, chino, and antiques them? And is it not unfortunate DRA CAFE is Sure in tempt wae later bold,
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