In an article published in one of the leading financial papers - The New York Financier - it was stated that the demand among bankers and large mercantile houses for young men having a general knowledge of foreign exchange and foreign shipping very greatly exceeds the supply; that students fitting themselves for mercantile life should devote as much study as possible to this branch, since it would be a very valuable acquisition to their fitness for the present commercial business, and at the same time insure a higher appreciation and greater salary for their services than is usually paid for other branches of either mercantile or banking business.