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TEACHERS COURSE.
The design of this department is to prepare teachers for the work of conducting public schools.
Thorough instruction is given in all the branches required for third, second and first grade certificates, including several important studies not required to be taught in the common schools. The work also includes a comprehensive study of the theory of teaching, history and philosophy of education and school economy.
Among the advantages of pursuing a course in pedagogics in connection with the Lawrence Business College and Academy are these: 1. The pupils come into contact with and are acromed by the spirit of classical training and business enthusiasm. 2. The students have opportunities for better instruction. 3. It permits a more extended course and hance tends to raise the scholarship of the teachers throughout the country. 4. The students of this department will receive the benefit of thorough training in drawing, plain penmanship and primary bookkeeping, including the better methods of teaching these important branches in the public schools.
COURSE OF STUDY.
In arranging the course of study, the object has been to subserve the interests of all pupils. Its completion will require hard study, but the patient toll of earnest pupils, supplemented by the instruction of faithful professors, will secure the desired result-mental strength, knowledge and fitness for the important work of teaching.
The reader will observe that the course is not arranged to extend over any given number of years, for graduation depends, not so much upon the time spent, as upon work actually accomplished. When the student has completed in a satisfactory manner, the branches required for a third grade certificate, he is granted a certificate, endorsed by the faculty, under the seal of the institution. Likewise when the student has completed the branches required for second and first grade certificates.
Those entering, beginning the primary work will probably require three years for the completion of the course. Students having the advantage of advanced standing will complete the work in proportionately shorter time.
This course provides thorough instruction in the following branches of study:
1. Mental Arithmetic,
2. Written Arithmetic,
3. Higher Arithmetic,
4. Algebra,
5. Geometry,
6. English Grammar,
7. Elocution,
8. Outlines of History,
9. Civil Government,
10. Elements of Bookkeeping,
11. Drawing,
12. Descriptive Geography,
13. Physical Geography,
14. Elements of Physiolgy,
15. Elements of Physics,
16. Orthography,
17. Rhetoric,
18. U.S. History,
19. Eng. and Am. Literature,
20. Science of Education,
21. Penmanship,
22. Vocal Music,
Supplemented by Drills, Examination
Reviews, Lectures and Practice
ELECTIVES.
Latin, German, Spanish
a institution has no vacation. Students can enter at any time and pursue their studies as rapidly as their ability will permit. During the summer months is a most excellent time to pursue a Business, Short-hand, Academic, or Teachers' course of study. Business or Short-hand students entering during the next three months will get the full benefit of the Teachers' Normal Drill during June and July.
GENERAL INFORMATION.
Business and Short-Hand Courses
No examinations are required to enter.
School is in session the entire year, and students can enter at any time and pursue their studies as rapidly as their ability will permit.
Time Required for Graduation.
Time Required for Graduation.
The time required to complete the course depends largely on the ability, experience and application of the pupil: the average time is about six or seven months. Some who are deficient in the common branches will require nine months to a year. It requires about the same time to complete the Short-Hand as it does the Business Course.
A hastily pursued, imperfectly comprehended commercial course is an unprofitable investment, as is a superficial knowledge of anything, while a thorough, practical acquaintance with the branches comprised in our curriculum is invaluable to every young man or woman.
This institution has raised the standard of Business Education to a higher level than ever before known in the history of business training, and has thus been placed far in advance of all others.
AT THE HEAD OF BUSINESS EDUCATION
Those who complete the prescribed course of study and pass all examinations in a satisfactory manner, will be awarded the College Diploma. The Diploma will be to the student not only a means of introduction to the public, but also a guaranty of scholarship and merit.
Diplomas.
Employment for Graduates.
As far as possible, graduates of good standing are assisted in obtaining situations if desired. Many young men seem to be deferred from securing a business education by the fear of not obtaining a situation after completing their course. We would suggest to them that this is not the right kind of spirit with which to commence life. People of so great timidity and helplessness need never expect to accomplish much. If a young man thinks he can better his situation by a course of training in commercial science, let nothing deter him from pushing forward, and he will be certain to come out all right. We never knew a young man with the energy and perseverance to master our course of study to remain long idle; but those who are too timid to undertake it, or get discouraged when half through, should not expect success to attend such family events.
A willing, faithful, honest, thoroughly-prepared man or woman of good character need have no fears of finding profitable employment. Such help is in great demand; it is only the indifferent, the careless, the lazy, the half-prepared young man or woman who needs anticipate failure.
It is a great pleasure to aid those who by their industry, integrity and ability win our confidence; and it is with pardonable pride we observe their success in life, still calling them ours.
It should be the alm of every student to go through the full course. This should be done both on account of the student and the institution.
Two parties are here interested—two reputations at stake. If a student who has only a partial knowledge of accounts, undertaking to keep books and manage his own business and finances, falls, he not only disparages the institution in the estimation of business men but it brings discredit upon himself.
Short Courses.
in ancient times ten, and even fifteen years were consumed in study before the
student could be regarded as educated. And, although there has been a change in modern times, still it takes two or three years now to prepare for college, and three or four in college, to complete a literary course.
Notwithstanding all this, many suppose that a course in Commercial Studies can be mastered in a very few weeks. A great mistake! unless some of the courses, mere smattering, taught here and there, be meant—courses to which, if the name commercial be applied, would seem impertinence. A commercial course in first-class business college of to-day means vastly more than the opening and closing of a few sets of accounts.
Care has been taken in the arrangement of the course that the student's time be not needlessly prolonged. The average young business man or woman has to conform to the laws of mental growth and the ordained agencies of experience. There is no "royal road" to business knowledge.
We believe we can impart as much practical, useful and available information in the same period of time as other commercial colleges; but we have no desire whatever to hold out the illusive notion that young men and women can master a business course in eight or ten weeks of study. Young men and women of ordinary intelligence, with but little reflection, can easily see that such an education must prove wholly inadequate to meet the demands of a business community.
As a matter of fact these short courses may offer cheap tuition, but they can only offer corresponding cheap information, not the Information demanded by the times.
It is our aim to combine theory and practice in such a manner that the student shall fully understand every transaction, and we do not intend he shall go over the course so hastily as to disregard the most important element in business education — thoroughness.
We would urge upon young men and women the importance of devoting sufficient time to master thoroughly the entire Business Course. It will pay financially, for the student will meet with better success in his business career; it will pay reputationally both the student and the institution; it will pay in the abundant satisfaction of having mastered at least one course of study in an educational institution.
BOARD AND TUITION.
Tuition Rates.
All tuition payable in advance.
Business Course.
Scholarship entitling the student to the full Business Course, time limited to one year's instruction, taken continuously or at different times, $50. (Six to seven months is about the time required to complete this course.) Three months, $30. A discount of ten per cent. from above rates will be made to ladies.
Short-Hand Course.
Scholarship entitlement the student to a full course in Short-Hand, including, Letter Writing, Pennmanship, Spelling and Grammar. Time limited to one year's instruction, taken continuously or at different times, $50. Six to seven months is about the average time to complete this course. A discount of ten per cent. will be made to ladies.
Type Writing.
Full course limited to three months'
instruction of one hour each day, §10.
Academic Department.
Fulton 3 months, $10.00
“ 6 ” “ 19.00
“ 9 ” “ 27.00
Normal Institute.
Normal Institute.
Eight Weeks. $8.00. Begins June 12th.
Club Rates.
When two enter for full course at same time a discount of $5.00 is made on each scholarship. When three, a discount of $6.00 is made on each, and on four, $7.50. No discounts allowed where partial course is taken.
books, Blanks and Stationery.
All books, blanks and stationery required for the complete business course cost from $16 to $20.
Books and stationery for the short-hand course cost from $4 to $5.
Books and stationery for the academic course cost from $5 to $10 per year.
Board.
Good board can be obtained in private families for $3.00, 3.25, 3.75 and 4.00, per week, depending upon quality of accommodations, distance from school, etc. All students are aided in securing suitable boarding places. Many of our students are boarding for $3.00 per week, and have accommodations that are entirely satisfactory. By boarding in clubs and renting furnished rooms with private families pupils can reduce expenses below $3.00 per week.
Commercial Education for Farmers and Their Sons and Daughters.
While farmers are sufficiently intelligent to appreciate the value of a commercial education, which, comparing its worth with a literary education from a practical stand point, costs so little and can be acquired in so short a time, they do in a number of cases look upon it as being useful only to those who do not belong to the farming community, or who wish to leave the farm and become book keepers, clerks, correspondents, bankers, brokers or merchants. This is a grave mistake, and one that, in numberless instances, is the source of much loss to the most useful class of citizens—farmers.
Farmers should not forget that the commercial college educates them for the most useful things in common life as well as in the highest; and that a commercial education largely makes up for a defective English or collegiate education. Every farmer has more or less to do with checks, orders, drafts, bills of exchange, and other expenses etc., is a large buyer and a still more extensive seller, and unless he understands the law which regulates all his transactions he must not expect to be successful.
Helis, or ought to be, as much interested as the merchant in knowing the proper vouchers to be given or taken in his business transactions. Many a good, old, honest farmer has lost large sums of money, and others their farms and personal property by signing what they presumed to be an innocent order. Had they received the goods well trained in good commercial education while young, such losses would not have occurred. $ ^{a} $ Farmers' sons need a commercial education more than merchants sons, because the latter can get a portion of it, though very slowly and imperfectly, in their father's store; whereas, if the farmers' sons do not obtain it at a commercial college they must do without, and as ignorance excuses no one, they are in the majority of cases the losers, depending on their experience for an education which is, as a rule, a very expensive school or college. In a well-handled hand, to keep an accurate account with everything dealt with on the farm; spell correctly, compose and write a good letter, draw up binding articles of agreement for personal services, contracts, leases, mortgages, notes, drafts, receipts, bills, etc.; acquire a knowledge of commercial law, as applied to the negotiation of commercial paper, collections, transportation, etc. They should have a thorough knowledge of the elements of Political Economy, the foundation of commercial science, of government, without reference to any of which, it is entitle to assume the duties of citizenship. In short, they should be prepared, if possessed of natural ability, to take public positions in the township, county, state or nation. Farmers' sons make the best of students, and best of business men. A large majority of our most successful men in every department of trade and commerce were originally hard-working farmer boys.
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