The aim of the founders of Alpha Kappa Psi, professional fraternity, in establishing the Zeta Chapter in the University of Nebraska was to further the individual welfare of its members, to foster scientific research in the fields of commerce, accounts and finance, to educate the public to appreciate and demand higher ideals therein, and to promote and advance in American institutions of learning courses leading to degrees in commercial sciences.

      To the intelligent observer and student of public affairs it cannot fail to become apparent that the present exalted position of the United States in every department of human progress among the nations of the world is due above all to its industries and its commerce.

      The belief has, however, been advanced in late years by public educators, that in order to achieve and maintain absolute supremacy in these fields it will be necessary for this country so to train its men as to enable them to thoroughly grasp the principles underlying every activity of business life, and to successfully apply them each to his particular calling.

      As an exposition of this belief the beginning of the twentieth century has witnessed the establishment by American universities of special schools, granting university degrees and embracing in their curriculum courses which are of value principally to men whose ambition it is to attain success in business.