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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 11 Jul 1924, p. 16

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1924 PLANT{) TRAIN INSURANCE MEN Companies and University to Co-operate Twenty-eight of the largest fire insurance companies of the United States bave-' joined hands in an unusual educational movement whereby they hope to provide for ~mselves yo.~g 'executives of . expenence and ab1hty.. These companies have agreed to furnish fr~e scholarships in the 'Northwester~ Umversity School of Commerce With the understanding that such students as they send to that school will be given a special course in fire insurance training. One of the features of the plan, beginning with the second semester of t~e first year, will be three hours of ~ractt cal work in the offices of the msu~ ance companies and as many hours m the classroom. The office work will be in the morning and the special instruction in the afternoon. "This is the first time that fire in- surance bus1r1ess methods have been taught on the basis of part-time in the office and part-time in the c.lassroom over -a special course cove~mg ~o years," commented E. C. Dav1es, a.sslstant dean of the Northweste;.n "~?mv~r sity Commerce . school. l[mvers1ty training for busmess executives and prospective executives has been de.mon.~ strated successfully in many other lmes, he continued. "Now a group of the most progressive fire insurance companies of the country a:e acknowledging this fact and are askmg Nor~hwes! ern university to help them rec_rmt the1r staffs with young men who, m future years will be qualified to carry on the great' businesses their elders now direct." · · Dean Davies indicated that the insurance companies face the problem of supplying their own ranks with n6W executives ~nd that while they pay the tuition of the students at Northwestern, the purpose is frankly. self-protectiye. Each of the twenty-e1ght compantes agrees to send to the school for the new course from two to four special students recruited from the brightest young men of the high schools of Chicago and vicinity. The new course will be opened in September of this year with probably 100 students. Northwestern announces that the following fire insurance companies .have agreed to finance scholarships in the new insurance course of the Commerce school : . Aetna Insurance company, Alhance Insurance company, Ameri~n Alliance Insurance company, Amen~." Eagle Fire Insurance company, Citizens Insurance company, Continental..Insurance company, Eagle Star and Bnttsh Dominions General Insurance Company, Ltd., Fidelity-Phoenix Fir~ Insura~ce Company of New York, F1re ~ssocla tion of Philadelphia, General Ftre Assurance Company of Paris, Great American Insurance company, Hartford Fire Insurance company, Insurance Company of North America, Liverpool and London and Globe Insuranc~ Company, Ltd., London and Lanc_ash1re ~n surance Company, Ltd., Nat1onal ~~b erty Insurance Company of Amer!ca, Newark Fire Insurance company, Onent Insural}ce company, Patriotic Insurance Company of America, Philadelphia Fi~e and Marine Insurance company, Providence Washington Insurance company, Queen Insurance Company of America, Royal Insurance Co., Ltd., Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance company, Star Insuranc;e Company of America, Sun Insurance office, Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd., World Fire and Marine Insurance party accompany him, not a, to the nearest ice cream parlor he "blew" a good portion of able cash. The incident pleased the who had stopped to learn the the officer's action, and, when they were informed Sunday afternoon, July 6, while traf- son of it, the stock of another fic on the Waukegan road, where it in- Hoffman's motorcycle men j tersects with the Glenview road, was at par. its height, motorists were given a brief thrill when one of Sheriff Hoffman's Ice cream cones, those motorcycle officers pursued and halted a car occupied by several women, one of tainers of the sweets so summer months, are 111c1 whom was a gray-haired matronly per- at the rate of 2,000 an hour, by llleat. gas oven and a 7-foot whet!. 50~ite the officer and the elderly a wheel lies upon its side, and is hlaiJt woman engaged in spirited conversation, with 36 spokes, upon each of· scores of drivers pulled up to learn what a · double iron mould. The the "pinch" was about. But it quickly poured into the hollow core, a cone.s developed that no arrest was taking plunger automatically descends, ~ place. The sheriff's officer was Sergeant ed ing the batter into its finished Gilbert Kelling and the car he had over- wheel then revolves, carrying the taken and halted was not being operated into the gas oven, which bakes it by speed fiends. On the contrary, it ly and quickly. Then the whed contained his mother, the elderly wom- forward another spoke, bringing en, Mrs. Ricka Kelling of Chicago, who er filled mould into the oven was out with several friends for a pleas- finished cone is removed. ure ride. Sergeant Kelling chanced to see them driving along the road, overtook them and orders that the Score One for the Motor Cop With a Heart Ilk $3650 w.,ru .. 6cel4U A NEW ive Cfkse119er LANDAU This new Five Passenger Landau, a striking addition to the V-63 line, will appeal particularly to those who desire a closed car of marked individuality. The comfortable Cadillac-Fisher Body is of new and special design. 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