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Eighteen States and the District of Columbia were represented at the second conference of collegiate instructors in foreign service training subjects, which was held at the New Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C., December 26, 1923, under the direction of the former advisory council and committee of fifteen on educational preparation for foreign service, now known as the National Council on Foreign Service Training. The topic of the conference was practices and objectives in training for foreign service of Government and business. This conference was the outgrowth of a small round-table conference held under similar direction at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago, Illinois, December 27, 1922. Preliminary to the latter conference the chairman of the National Council on Foreign Service Training, G. L. Swiggett, requested two groups of men engaged in the service of Government and business for an opinion based on experience in regard to necessary educational preparation for their respective types of work. Each group expressed the belief that overspecialization was not desirable; that technique should come late in the course of study; that the maximum of English should be offered; and that chemistry should be taken as a basic science. With these suggestions in mind it was decided at the 1922 Chicago conference that the following subjects, with unit requirements, will best serve as secondary preparation for further collegiate study in foreign service subjects: English, 4; modern language, 4--at least three units in one language; American history, 1; English history or modern European history, 1; economic geography, 1; mathematics--algebra and plane geometry, 1.5; chemistry or physics, 1; civics, 0.5; elective, 1; 15 units in all. [Best copy available has been provided.].
Training for foreign service adequate to achieve the end in view, must be based upon satisfactory consensus in commercial education. This type of instruction should be established in all cities of present or potential foreign trade opportunities. This first conference to be held in the United States for the specific purpose of discussing the problem from the standpoint of government, business, and education, in order to ascertain a "modus operandi" in the establishment of an adequate course of instruction through the cooperation of these three essential agencies, was called by the Commissioner of Education of the United States. The following contents from the conference are included in this bulletin: (1) Letter of transmittal; (2) Introduction. (3) Appointment of Steering Committee; (4) Introductory remarks by the chairman; (5) Remarks by Mr. John Barrett; (6) Address by Mr. Wilbur J. Carr, Director of Consular Services; (7) Discussion of Mr. Carr's paper; (8) Address by Mr. James W. Farrell, president of the National Foreign Trade Council; (9) Discussion of Mr. Farrell's paper. (10) Preparation for foreign service in schools and colleges--Discussion of the papers of the morning session; and (11) The committee of fifteen on educational preparation for foreign service. The report of the committee on commercial education for foreign trade of the National Foreign Trade Council is appended. (Contains 2 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.].