Excerpt from Conference on Commercial Education and Business Progress The effect of the new policy was immediately apparent. The total number of registrations in courses in economics had been 253 for the two semesters of 1901 - 1902. In 1902 - 1903, this increased to 309; in 1903 - 1904 to 735; by 1906 - 1907, it had reached This striking increase came about not only because a larger number of students elected a full four-years course in business, but because many sought some of the courses to supplement their other studies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.