LAWRENCE BUSINESS COLLEGE AND ACADEMY OF ENGLISH AND CLASSICS.
OFFICERS AND FACULTY
The Lawrence Business College AND Academy of English and Classics.
Advisory Board of Directors.
REKV. James MARVIN, Hon. EDWARD RUSSELL,
Hon. S. O. THACHER, Judge W. W.NEVISON,
Ex-GOV. JOHN BURKE, Judge W. W.NEVISON,
G. W. LEARNAND, GREV. R. CORLEYD,
G. W. E. GRIFHIFF, Esq., Prof. A. R.MARSH,
Officers.
Committee on Instruction.
JAMES MARVIN, President,
SOLON J. C. MARTIN, Vice President,
L. C. MARTIN, Secretary.
Committee on Instruction.
JAMES MAIDEN, D. D., L. L. D., Ex-Officio.
A. K. MARSH, Ph.D.
BROOKLYN HANDLELAND,
Judge W. W. NEVISON.
FACULTY.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.
E. LAWRENCE MELRAYV,
Superintendent, and Director of the Business Exchange and Office Department.
CHARLES L. MARTIN, M. S.",
Department of Book keeping, Pennmanship, and Commercial Science.
JOSEPH STOTLER,
Department of Mathematics, English Language and Clivia.
B. FRANKLIN HUTCHINS, L. L. B.",
Department of Commercial Law.
FRANK H. OLNEY.
Assistant in Mathematics and English Branches
JOHN W. MEILRAV,
Assistant in Theory Department.
SHORT-HAND DEPARTMENT.
SHORT-HAND DEFINITION
E. LAWRENCE MCIILRAVY,
Superintendent.
B. FRANKLIN HUTCHINS,
Short-hand and Type-Writing.
CHARLES L. MARTIN,
Penmanship and Correspondence.
JOSEPH STOTLER,
English Grammar.
JOHN W. McIILRAVY, Assistant in Short-
hand and Type Writing.
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT.
E. LAWRENCE McLEAVY,
Superintendent.
JOSEPH STOTLER, M. S.,
Principal, Instructor in Mathematics, English
Language and Civics.
FRANK H. OLNEY,
Greek and Latin.
MINA E. MARVIN, B. A.,
German and French.
CHARLES A. MARTIN,
Civil Polity and Correspondence.
M. AGNES CLARKE, B. A.,
Spainish.
THE NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE of the Lawrence Business College and Academy of English and Classics, for 1888, is written with so much charm of style as to impart to it a delightful interest in the reading, besides it contains several specimens of pen work and engravings showing some of the departments of the college, etc., the whole combining to make a desirable compendium of information concerning Business, Short Hand, Normal and Academic education. Any one may secure a copy free by addressing
E. L. McI LRAVY, Supt,
Lawrence, Kansas.
A Prominent Institution of Learning.
The Lawrence Business College, the oldest and most honored institution of its kind in the state, is rapidly moving to the front as a prominent institution of learning. It has increased its facilities and usefulness by adding an Academic Course, and will heaafter be known as the Lawrence Business College and Academy of English Classics. Its object is the promotion of Business, English and Classical education.
Civilian educator. The directors are among the leading educators and citizens of Kansas, among them are such men as James Marvin, ex-cancellor of Kansas State University; Hon. S. O. Thacher, President of the
First Nationat Bank; ex Governor Charles Robinson, Col. O. E. Learnard, Hon. Edward Russell and others.
With such gentlemen as directors this will become one of the leading educational institutions of the west, and one of which every Kansan may well feel proud - Topека Daily Commonwealth.
JUNE 25th,1887.
The L. B. C. and A. of E. & C. is fast taking rank with the best institutions of the kind in America. The college has greatly multiplied its activities and extended its scope, and its present spirit is broader than ever before. It feels the impulses of the great and growing West, and its faculty are resolved that it shall be presently developed into an institution of importance, fully commensurate with the demands of the times. Its faculty is composed of scholarly men and women, not pedants, nor recluses, nor pedagogues.
Education should not be regarded as an end but only as a means to an end. When Mr. Greeley said many years ago, "if there is anything in this world which education should mean, it is the equipping of man for the battle of life," he uttered a great truth, the force of which is not fully understood.
Any knowledge which renders the individual more capable of supplying his own wants and the wants of those dependent upon him; that gives him clearer and broader views respecting his relations to the community in which he lives and the world at large; that informs him concerning his rights and duties as a citizen; that places him in greater harmony with the will of his Creator and the laws of his own being; in short, any power of head, heart or hand that makes him a stronger, wiser and better man for all the living questions which from day to day he must meet is education. It may be acquired in the schools, or it may come through the hard knocks of life's conflicts, but it is education in the best and highest sense.
We live in an age of advancement, an age of development. Every ambitious man, every enterprising woman is endeavoring to excel.
Our farmers demand the best and latest improved machinery.
Our merchants seem to know that first-class tools are essential to success.
Our railroads are fully awake to the fact that their prosperity depends upon their ability to compete with all other lines of road, and furnish the public the best, the very best accommodations.
We demand the best lawyers, the best physicians,the best teachers,and willingly compensate them for their services.
Our business are not an exception to this rule. They want none but men and women of talent and ability, those who possess qualifications as well as honesty and ambition.
There is everywhere a demand for the best.
Every now and then we hear some one regretting that they are not qualified to fill a position where competent men are wounded immediately. With these the question no longer is "will it pay me to educate?" but "can I afford to be without an education?"
Find out what you want to be and do, then take off your coat, roll up your sleeves, and make a dust in the world.
Knowledge and Wisdom.
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one,
Have oftentimes no connection. Knowledge
dwells
Inhands replete with thoughts of other men;
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Knowledge—a rude unprofitable mass,
The mere materials with which wisdom buffels;
Till smoother and squared and fitted to its
Does it encumbered what it seems to enrich.
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so
No department in a college curriculum is of more importance than the English, it gives that finish to the education that enables the student to express himself elegantly and intelligently, whether in the parlor, the drawing room, in the pulpit, on the platform, or behind the anvil, and yet most students on entering college think that the thing of prime importance to them is Latin, Greek or the higher mathematics. If it could be shown to students that it was of more credit to them to be able to write an intelligent letter to their friends than to say in poor English that they were students of the dead languages, there would be less talk about the unpracticleness of college students. It is a matter of but little wonder that "men of the world" are slow to take college students into business that requires practical common sense. Less Latin and Greek and more English. — Baker University Breeze.
A Few Pointed Points.
Education is a preparation for the work of life.
It aims to diminish the friction of drudgery, which is the natural and direct result of ignorance.
It aims to make better men and women, because it opens up many avenues of honorable and remunerative employment
It makes happier people, because it opens up larger fields of enjoyment.
Any kind of an education that improves the mind and enlarges the scope of its power is good.
An education, however, that has a direct application to the practical work of life, is a necessity.
Every person, no matter what calling in life he may follow, must have daily business intercourse with his fellow men.
A wrong way of doing business is a fruitful source of poverty.
A right way of doing business is one of the elements of success in life.
Make the Best of Yourself.
Are you making the best of yourself, young man? Are you using to the best advantage the natural powers of body and mind given you by your Creator? Or are you drawing through life in half efforts, and steadily drifting behind men of les8 ability than your own—men who with fewer talents than you possess, are making the best of themselves! Think of this. Put the question to yourself as we put it to you, and do it honestly. Look the matter right in the face.
Are you making the best of yourself?
If not, make a change; begin a new life at once.
Do your best in everything—in your thinking and in your doing.
Rise out of the old ruts and strive for leadership, and not only will the world be better for your having lived in it, but you will be better for having lived in the world.
To the Boys.
To whatever occupation you may be called, as a means of obtaining a livelihood, determine to understand it well, and to work heartily at it.
If you constantly look upon your employment as mere drudgery—as something which, while it must be done, may be done anyhow—depend upon it, a mere drudge you will always be. There are two classes of young men—those who work without thought and without energy, and those who throw both thought and energy into their work. The first do their best to keep themselves down; the others do their best to raise themselves up; and both, in the end, will reap just that which they have sown.
Let your conduct be such as to Insure the approval of those above you—resolve to learn everything that can be of service to you—let "quickly and well" be the
mark at which you aim in relation to every matter of business with which you are interested, and never forget that upon your dblhistress youth will depend your success as a man.
Be careful as to who are your com panions. That is a good old saying—'tell me your company and I'll tell you what you are; for, as birds of a city I look more than man who love bad habits delight in the company of those who love them too.
Now, it is far easier to keep from bad companions than to leave them after you have once associated with them. If you find any one anxious to scrape an acquaintance with you whose character is known to be bad, just show him you would rather be alone than be seen with him. Many a lad, who has bid fair to grow up a respectable man, has been wholly ruined by mixing with evil companies. The habits which have contravened their public houses, bitterting away their golden hours in smoking and drinking, have in thousands of instances laid the foundation of a disgraceful life, a wretched death, and a miserable eternity. Let their fate be a warning to you and lead you to choose associates of a different character.
One word more on this point. If you have any wish to secure the esteem of men whose influence is such as to render them capable of occasionally helping a young man in life, you must never once be seen with such characters as we have described. No! If you would not only respect yourself, but have the product of others, you must shun the very presence of those who, having no regard for their own character, would soon make havoc with yours.
— Exchange
Education Without Adaptation.
Why is it that we do not exhibit as much sense in educating our children as we do in training our animals? A farmer has a colt and a boy. He studies that colt carefully. He notes the points in its physical construction, his disposition and temperament, and he can readily tell whether it is best to train him for a trotter or a plow horse. He would be soundly laughed at if he should send a heavy built, stolid, muscular, slow-going animal to a jockey to be trained for the race course, and his judgment would be as mercilessly scored if he should take a high-spirited, graceful young colt, with all the points of a trotter in his make up, and decide to make a draft horse of him. But that same man will give his son an education with no consideration of his mental adaptation to the course of study he is pursuing. He only knows that custom has prescribed certain things to be learned which is called getting an education, and if he goes through this course of training, he has got his education and his duty as a parent is discharged. The result that boys are educated away from the work of life they are adapted to instead of being well prepared for what their natural qualification fit them to do well. This is why the boy who would have made a successful machinist goes through life as a poor preacher, or a third rate lawyer, and a discontented black-smith hammer's his life and energy out of the forge, with talents and inclinations which would have made him a successful physician. A human life may be made a success by a good education, and it can just as surely be made a failure by a system of false training. Indiscriminate education without considering adaptation is a grave defect in our educational system. It involves not only a waste of time and money but a most fearful waste of human energy, by misdirected application. If there is any one course of training that is adapted to all, whatever pursuit in life they may follow, it is the education afforded by a reliable business college. Every person is compelled to have business dealings with his fellow men, and a thorough preparation for the business affairs of life cannot well involve an unwise expenditure of time, money or effort—The Western Plawman.