The subject matter of a “course” in hospital admimstration is entirely subordinate to the qualifications, ideals and ability of the student, yet obviously the executive must have relative knowledge of the various activites in the field and such knowledge is dest secured through actual training. What may be designated as an elementary or basic course could be designed to preent the objectives, ideals, function, organization, contacts and general features of hospital administration, serving at the same time as a method of learning the aptitudes as well as the limitation of the student. Such a training should em brace theoretical and practical work in hospital-community-health problems. An intermediate course can well be provided for those who,for one or several reasons, will not take a full course of trining.