26 Commercial Education 
Industry, Mining, Building, Transport, or some 
other specific industry : it being remarked that 
‘it will naturally be impossible to cater for any 
except homogeneous classes of students, each 
sufficiently large to warrant the expenditure of 
public money.’ 
Most schools will presumably offer one or 
more of the general groups, whatever it may 
attempt to do for particular occupations. Six 
such possible groups are mapped out. Among 
the fixed subjects, commonly three, ' General 
Economies ’ appears in five out of the six : in 
the sixth, it is one of four electives. ‘ Business 
Management and Methods of Business ' appears 
in three ; ‘Trade Organisation and Business 
Methods ? (which would seem to be much the 
same) in another. ‘Commodities’ is a fixed 
subject in three groups, and elective in another. 
Accounting is a fixed subject in one group and 
elective in the other five. Among electives 
Commercial Law appears in every group ; and 
in every group also appears a Modern Foreign 
Language. 
So far as subjects are concerned, these group- 
ing schemes are similar in important respects to 
the curricula imposed on students of approxi- 
mately the same age who are preparing them- 
selves at British universities for the degree of 
B.Com. : in particular, they would seem to show