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COMMERCIAL EDUCATION.
937
in the critical year of 1857, succeeded in saving a large number of Stockholm
merchants from financial ruin. Since 1893, these two colleges have been in receipt
of an annual Government grant, at present amounting to 28,000 kronor. An
inspector appointed by the Crown exercises superintendence over the two schools.
In their organization they differ but little from one another. They most nearly
resemble the North German higher commercial schools. The Governing Bodies of
the schools have been careful to keep the schools abreast of those on the
Continent by sending their head-masters and teachers to visit foreign schools and
commercial congresses, etc.
The Gothenburg Commercial College. This institution has two
divisions: a two-years’ course and a one-year professional course for those
pupils who have passed the final examination at a higher State College
(the university entrance examination). To enter the former, it is
necessary to show, on examination, the knowledge in Swedish, German,
English, French, Mathematics, History and Geography that is requisite
lor a remove to the lower sixth class at a State College. Applicants
must not exceed 18 years, unless the Governing Body see fit, for special
reasons, to make an exception. For entrance to the other course, a final
certificate on the scientific or on the semi-classical line of a higher
State College is required, or else evidence, shown at entrance
examination, of the same capacity in the subjects named as is requisite for
a pass in the said final examination.
The subjects of instruction are Swedish, German, English, French, Spanish
(the last-named not compulsory), Commercial Geography and the History of
Commerce, Commercial Law, Political Science, Political Economy, the Science of
Commerce, Book-keeping together with Office-Work and Commercial Correspondence,
Commercial Arithmetic, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry, Knowledge of
Merchandise, and also Stenography, Calligraphy, and Type writing. In addition to
the instruction given at the school, visits are paid to factories and other industrial
establishments. The school-year lasts from August 25 to June 15, with a holiday
of 2,/a weeks at Christmas and one week at Easter. The hours of work are from
8 to 11 and 12 to 3; on three days in the week the premises are open in the
evening for the pupils to do exercises in book-keeping.
The teaching-staff at present includes the head-master and 23 other masters,
among them native teachers in German, English, and French. The number
of the pupils is 179, 137 attending the two-years’ course and 42 the
professional course. Of the former 38 are women; women were first admitted in 1881.
The average age of those entered in the first class is about 16 V* years. The
fees are 320 kronor (à l’io shilling or 0*268 dollar) a year for the second
class and the professional class, 280 kronor for the first class. There are,
however, at the institute a number of scholars, at present 27, who are exempted from
all payment; moreover, pupils who are known to be in need of it, may have
their fees reduced to 100 kronor a year. In the current session 59 pupils enjoy
this privilege. The premises of the College have a very fine building, funds
for which were obtained from the so-called Renström Fund (see p. 382).
The Sohartau Commercial College. This institution is situated in
Stockholm, having been founded, as above mentioned, by the
Wholesale-Trade Society of that city in 1865; from which society it enjoys an
annual grant of 7,000 kronor. This college has likewise a two-years’
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