SCHOLAR-ATHLETES
"PERMANENTLY TIRED" LONDON, Feb. 10. Complaints that university graduates entering on a commercial career often do not readily develop "the business sense" are made in a report published yesterday by the Association of British Chambers of Commerce. One large firm, who recruited graduates to train them for high executive posts, states: Experience prepares us to find that a brilliant academic record combined with a brilliant athletic record has been achieved by excessive permanent exhaustion. The report recommends that universities should give a course combining practical commercial training with education, the .students doing alternating periods of six months in a business and, six months at the university.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 9
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