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viii. commerce.
the evening classes of the Society for the Advancement of Commercial Knowledge in
Gothenburg, the Practical Schools in Karlskoga and Kristinehamn, the Norrköping
Higher Commercial Institute (Gustaf Smedman), and Krok’s Commercial Institute in
Hälsingborg All these institutions receive grants from their respective municipalities.
Proprietory schools for teaching writing and commercial subjects — sometimes
with very pretentious names — are, moreover, to be met with in all the large
towns and in many smaller ones. As a rule they receive pupils without regard
to their grounding, and allow them full freedom in their choice of subjects for
study. However, some of the larger and better schools have methodically
arranged courses for a year, a term, or a shorter period, which aim at
imparting suitable instruction, adjusted to the point of view and the aims of the
pupils, in the more important commercial subjects, at times including languages,
commercial law, economics, etc. Such are Påhlman Brothers’ Commercial
Institute in Stockholm, Filip Holmqvist’s and the Gothenburg Private Commercial
Institute (Benno Rosenbund) in Gothenburg, and Bendtz Brothers’ Language and
Commercial Institute in Malmö. The lack of control over the private
commercial schools, in Sweden as in many other countries, has in a number of cases
caused certain drawbacks. Yet an undoubted tendency towards improvement
has shown itself in recent years.
C. The High School of Commerce in Stockholm was founded on the
initiative of bank-director K. A. Wallenberg of that city, now Minister
for Foreign Affairs. In 1903 he donated a sum of 100 000 kronor to start
a fund for a commercial and economic university college, and in 1906 set
afoot the establishment of the High School of Commerce Association,
whose object was to set up and develop a Swedish university college of
commerce. Thanks to the magnanimous generosity of bankers, commercial
companies, and private merchants, and to the decision of the Town Council
of Stockholm in 1907, to appropriate for the purpose the sum of 475 000
kronor from the Forsgrén Fund in Stockholm, the Association was
able to proceed to carry the scheme into effect in 1909. In this
manner the High School of Commerce could enter upon its work on October
1st, 1909. At the suggestion of the Government, the Riksdag voted a
grant of 30 000 kronor towards the working expenses of the High School,
a grant that has been renewed in subsequent years. The expenses of the
High School during the academic year 1913/14 rose to about 133 000
kronor.
At present there are professors in Economics (with Statistics), Science of
Commerce, Economic Geography (with the science of raw products), Jurisprudence,
and Political Science (with the history of economics). Five lectors in modern
languages, mostly natives, give instruction in German, English, French, Russian,
and Spanish. There are also docents and assistant masters. Next to the
lectures, the practical classes and courses play an important part. After two years
study, the pupils are held to be sufficiently prepared to enter for the so-called
"examination in economics", which comprises the compulsory subjects Economics,
Commercial Science, Economic Geography or Jurisprudence, and one language,
and the optional ones, i. e. any other subject taught at the High School. There
is a special examination for those who intend to be teachers of commercial
subjects. The fee is 250 kronor a year, to which must be added the entrance
and examination fees.
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