LAWRENCE BUSINESS COLLEGE AND ACADEMY OF ENGLISH AND CLASSICS.
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A Good Education.
That is what everybody talks about, what millions desire, what tens of thousands strive for, and few obtain.
What is it?
What is it?
That depends upon what a man wants to do. Every man uses tools—implements of some kind—and every man wants the best. But the implements best for one man is not best for all. For instance, the sword was for ages held in highest honor among men, and still is by many. But the great Cardinal Richelieu tells us that—
"In the hands of men entirely great
The PEN is mightier than the sword. And we all know that the plow is far more useful to the masses of mankind. The ax is more useful to the pioneer, wood-chopper or lumberman, the lancet to the surgeon, the harpoon to the whaleman, and the humble jack-knife to the boy who starts out to "whittle his way through the world."
So much for edged tools. The same rule holds good as to other implements and is equally applicable to education. To every young man (or woman) who is debating in his own mind what kind of an education will be best for him, the question comes home, "What do you wish to do with it?"
In a general way it may be said that if a man is bent on pursuing one of the three "learned professions," so called—theology, law or medicine—if he has decided that his genius, or call, or inclination strongly impels him to one of those modes of life, he would do well to go to some good academy and there lay a deep and broad foundation for his higher education and life work. In each of these professions a knowledge of the Classics is indispensable.
Our country is well supplied with professional men and women, such as they are, but there is plenty of "room at the top." To attain the highest excellence in a profession requires the best efforts of the strongest and most indomitable spirits. Each young man and woman should take an inventory of requisites, count the costs and weigh the chances of success or failure before deciding to attempt to climb the rugged ascent of a professional career.
But the great number of young men who have decided to devote their lives to business, will find a "good education" in academic and commercial courses of study.
For them the "Battle of Life" is to be fought and won, not with the glittering steel of Damascus or Toledo, but with the more practical and powerfu implements of industrial and commercial pursuits.
A wise man when asked by an anxious father what he should teach his sons, replied : "Teach them those things they will most need or desire to practice when they become men."
That was the practical word in season, the word with the bark on it, the embodiment of that clear cut "common sense," which is one of the most uncommon things in this world.
OLD STUDENTS!
And What They Are Doing!
And when the world shall link your names
With gracious lives and manners fine,
The teacher shall assert his clauses,
And proudly whisper, "These were mine"
—WHITTIER.
To gilt the gold of one, to paint the illies of another, to spray perfume on the vloethes of loved ones, to add another hue unto the rainbow of fortune, and finally to extend the cup of good cheer to the even tempered ones, whom not even the trying ordeals of final examinations would lead beyond a sigh, we pend the following items :
Mr. Martin V. Ward, class of '85, is at present assistant cashier of Valley Falls, (Kans) First National Bank.
(Mrs. F. I. Nairn, Mr. S. C. Pettit, class of '88, is at his home, Abilene, Kans. Mr. P. was an excellent student and thorough gentlemen.
Mr. M. W. Brady, office manager for an extensive Loan and Trust Company, of Abilene, Kans., is one of the loyal graduates, and a most estimable young man in every sense of the word. Mr. D. F. Bucher, of Olpe, is at present, a member of the short-hand department of the college on account of his recommendation.
Mr Robert Greene, class of '85, is doing heavy clerical work in the Superintendent's office of the Missouri Pacific, at Denver. He is so thorough, accurate and reliable that he is indispensible to the company.
Miss Mildred Lewis, also of Abilene will re-enter school in September and complete the short hand course. At present she is engaged in clerical work at Abilline.
Mr. E. J. Braund is amanteusis for Messrs. Burton & Moore, attorneys, Abilline, Kas., and is performing his duties to the entire satisfaction of his employers.
Chas. Horsøfield, '85, is clearing house clerk for Armour Brothers Banking Co., Kansas City, Mo. For quick and accurate accounting he has few equals, and he is growing better all the time. Mr. E. Spalding, of '85, is with the same firm.
Wm. VanHorn, ('88), is helping to survey a new railroad through the Indian Territory and New Mexico.
G. L. Mitchell, (88), is in the employ of the Wells Fargo Trans-Continental Express Company. G. L. goes at the responsible work with a delibereate coolness that warrants confidence and success.
Mr La Rue Perrine, (SS.) is associated with his father in the Insurance and loan business at Cawker City. La Rue, the student, par excellence; La Rue, the man, unimpeachable.
Mr. L. L. Hilliker, (86), is operator and ticket agent at the Santa Fe depot at Lawrence. Mr. Hilliker is a fine accountant and business writer as well as an expert telegraph operator.
Mack Chance, ('87), is in the employ of the Augusta National Bank, Augusta, Kans. Mack has always had a good chance, and the chances are he will succeed beyond the most sanguine expectations of his friends.
Geo. Lotholtz, ('86), is book-keeper and stenographer for the Western Sash and Door Co., Kansas City, Mo.
Mr. Leslie Reynolds, ('85), is manager of the South-Western Stage Co., Dodge City, Kans. He knows how to apply himself with considerable zeal to his varied and trying tasks.
Mrs Edward Jordan (*nee* Alice Roberts) made the college a pleasant call recently. In addition to teaching, her husband owns and superintends extensive farm property near Severy, Kans. Ed is also a graduate of the class of '87.
Mr. Ira W. Hicks, (87) is stenographer for the Merchants National Bank of Lawrence. In addition to his accomplishments as stenographer and typewriter, Ira is a fine accountant.
Mr. Bloom C. Joy, ('87), is manager of several branch offices of the Chicago Lumber Co. in Colorado, with his main office at Kit Carson, Colorado. Mr. Joy won the gold medal last year for highest average scholarship, and is now winning fame and fortune as a shrewd business manager for one of the most extensive lumber companies in the West.
Levi Clippinger, ('84), is conducting an extensive and prosperous hardware business at Centralia, Kans. He made the college a pleasant visit a few days ago. He informs us that Mr. Oscar Cummings, ('84), is cashier of Centralia National Bank. Both Oscar and Levi are winning success to a degree highly gratifying to themselves and their friends. Mr. A. Bowman, of the class of '84, is also successfully engaged in the hardware business in Centralia.
Mr. C. R. Howard, (88), after completing his course in the L. B. C., accepted the cashshipers of the Burrton (Kansas) Bank. His sister, Miss Fannie, (88), has charge of abstract books for her father. We will modify our praise of their graces by saying they made most remarkable records in college.
Mr. C. B. Miller, also from Burron, was a fine student and impressed every one with the manliness and grace of his own personality.
own personality.
H. S. Woodard, '84), is one of the successful merehants of Osborne, Kans. He is conducting an extensive boot and shoe business.
business. Mr.C.F.Godley is assistant book- keeper for the Cherry Vale (Kans) State Bank. Mr.G was one of the reliable boys of'88, and hopes to return and complete the course in the near future.
C. J. Thoburn recently left school to accept a position as book-keeper for W. N.Culbertson, wholesale coal dealer, Lawrence, Kans.
Mr. R. C. Manley, (87), has returned to school and is now pursuing the Academic course preparatory to entering the State University.
Mr. J. H. Vaughn (S7), is in the employ of the Southern Kansas R. R. He had formerly served the company in a minor capacity, but his increased ability put a premium upon his services, and he has been promoted and his pay correspondingly increased.
Mr. W. W. Bailey, (87), holds the re- responsible position of stenographer and book-keeper for the J. B. Watkins Mortgage and Banking Co., Lake Charles, La.
It would seem the bank cashier under the new regime in the actual Business Department, is an exiled personage. We stepped into that department a few days ago and found J. G. Wilson, cashier of the First National College Bank, sitting in an upholstered(?) chair with his feet on his private desk and an air abo u his general appearance which seemed to say: "I am monarch of everything within kicking distance." He sayeth "come," and W. A. English cometh; "get" and J. McClun assumes a "lap-to-the-second" gait. The only consolation the poor clerks have is a "get-there-myself-someday" vision, which haunts them and promises sweet revenge in the future.
Mr. J B. Starr, of 86, is instructor and military commandant in the State University of Maryland.
C. F. Waugh, (83), is chief clerk In the Superintendent's office of the A., T. & S.F.
R.R. New Mexico division. He visited the college a few days since, enroute to Chicago and eastern cities on a vacation trip.
Harvey Rankin, ('88), is in the employ of the Wakefield (Kans.) National Bank of which W. H. Meyers, ('85), is cahler. The boys make a team of which the officers of the bank may justly feel proud.
He has recently entered into a life partnership under Hymen's usual restrictions. We extend congratulations.
Mr John P. Starkweather, (85), book keeper for Clay County National Bank, Clay Center, Kans., sends his compliments, and his friend McNeil, the latter registering for a full course.
Will Starkweather, now in the employ of J. F. Billings & Co., Clay Center, has invented and secured by patent a novel and reliable device for keeping account of stock in dry goods establishments. Judging from the favor and ready sale with which it meets, there seems to be "millions in it."
Mr. F. G. Hubbel, (88), is chief clerk in the auditor's office of the Chicago, Santa Fe & California R. B. Co., Chicago, Ills.
Mr W. H. Sears, ('86), for two years instructor in the English department of the L B.C. is filling the honorable and lucrative position of private secretary to Gov. Robinson at the U.S. Indian School, Lawrence, Kans.
Past and Present.
Great and important have been the changes made in this country during the last half century. Probably no era since the world began has witnessed such wonderful subordination of matter to mind. All the elements of nature seem to have wheeled into line to do the bidding of man. The seal of progress is stamped on everything about us.
In no direction is this progress so marked as in what may be styled the Business World. By the use of steam and electricity, man accomplishes now in days what formerly required weeks, in weeks what required months, and in months what took years.
All kinds of business, to be carried on successfully, now, must be done according to modern methods. The business man of to-day must have skill, promptness, accuracy, dispatch. He must become accustomed to method, to effective system and must learn to deal in hard and shrewd common sense, as much as a professional man must be taught to reason, reflect, calculate and dismininate and requires as much varied and useful knowledge. How shall he acquire this without special training?
The methods of apprenticeship were too slow. Young men were wanted for responsible and lucrative positions more rapidly than they could be supplied by the old-fashioned methods. The Business College sprang into existence to meet the demand of the times and to prepare young men quickly and surely for their work.
Thousands upon thousands have been swelling the ranks every year since their establishment, through this channel; still the demand is not supplied, and young men of mettle and proper qualifications are, and always will be, wanted.
A Practical Education.
At no time in the history of the world has a sound and practical business education been more vital to success than at the present. If we are wealthy it is impossible to manage our business to advantage without it. If we are dependent upon ourselves for support, we can in no way find so pleasant and profitable employment as by qualifying for business.
Competition in every department of trade is becoming fiercer every day, until the race of life has become intense.
The runners are treading upon each other's heels; "woe to him who stops to tie his shoe-string." The weak are pushed aside; while the strong, intelligent and self-reliant win fame and fortune. Not only so, but the rich of to-day may be the poor of to-morrow, and without a competency; the best capital that a man can possess is a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of the laws of business and their application to the daily affairs of life. This capital is permanent; it is always available. Thieves cannot steal, nor reverse of fortune, however desperate, impair it. It is the hidden force which impels through all obstacles.
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Time was when the professions, law, theology and medicine absorbed all the most ambitious of our young men. It was the professions which promised the readiest openings to a place, preferment and power.
and power.
Now we call our business men "prince"
—so great their power, so far-reaching their resources.
Their ships ride the seas, while they at home dictate matters of government—