LAWRENCE BUSINESS COLLEGE AND ACADEMY OF ENGLISH AND CLASSICS.
that the regular banks sustain to the best men in life. It receives their deposits, pays their checks, collects notes and drafts, issues certificate of deposit and sells exchange upon distant cities. The books and blanks are the same as those of the best equipped bank, and the business, both within the bank and with its customers, is conducted upon the strict principles that govern well regulated institutions.
The Merchants Emporium is an office at which are represented the various jobbing houses which supply at wholesale the stocks of merchandise required by those doing business in the department of Business Practice.
The Commercial Exchange
This is our general purchasing agency, to whom the retail merchants sell their goods at the retail prices and it takes the place of the general consumer.
All business required to be done among business men, and that does not properly come within the sphere of the other offices, is also performed. In this division are represented the Real Estate, Transportation and Insurance offices.
Commercial Law.
The aim of this department is to acquaint the student with those features of law that every business man should understand and without a knowledge of which he is ever at the mercy of designing men.
The subjects of the Law Course are contracts, negotiable papers, agency, guaranty, corporations, insurance, interest and usury, liens, tender, payment, distribution of estates, etc. The same degree of thoroughness of instruction is observed in this department, and as high a standard of qualification required of the pupil, as in any other branch in the course. It is regarded as one of the most important features of the school.
Commercial Arithmetic
COMMERCIAL branch of a business education forms the very foundation of business enterprise and success. Lightning rapidity and accuracy in the fundamental rules, with a thorough mastery of the principles of the most importance to the business man, is our steady aim.
Business Writing.
Business Writen
However well a young man may be prepared in every other branch in our course, such knowledge will be of limited value to him, especially in obtaining employment, unless it be accompanied by a neat legible and rapid hand writing. We insist on the student acquiring a good handwriting combining the three qualities named above—neatness, legibility and rapidity, devoid of flourish, shade or display of any kind.
Practical Grammar.
A practical knowledge of the English language is the first essential of an English education.
education.
We present the Science of Language, of which all the elements are thoroughly taught, as tributary to the art of daily expression. Stotter's Grammar was published especially for our use.
especially for our use
Business Correspondence
Business Correspondence. There is perhaps no more important branch of English education than Letter-Writing. The ability to write an elegant business letter is an invaluable accomplishment. A text book has been prepared by this institution comprising the simplest and most practical instruction upon the subject, which constitutes the basis of the instruction provided; but this will be supplemented by oral instruction, illustrations and exercises and practical work in the Business Practice Department.
Spelling.
We have made the spelling exercise an important feature of our school, and all students are required to take part therein until they have passed the required standard.
Constitution is the base of all law, and should be carefully studied. The detail of governmental operations is not lost sight of, and the student is made familiar with the duties of the various state and county offices as well.
Political Economy.
Civil Government.
Civil Government. The fundamental law of our land, the
In teaching this subject the aim is to give a clear statement of principles, avoiding the advocacy of one side or the other of disputed questions as expounded by political parties. At the present time of doubtful issues between capital and labor, the student cannot pursue a more important nor instructive study than Political Economy. It is the foundation of commercial science.
Commercial Geography In this important branch particular prominence is given to the location, the commercial relations, and the commercial and industrial importance of civilized countries and populous cities and the natural and artificial channels of trade opened up by the great rivers, lakes, inland seas, canals and railroads.
Commercial Geography.
Commercial History.
In this branch we teach only those important events in our history which every American citizen should know. The history of the commercial development and growth of the United States will receive special attention.
SHORT-HAND COURSE.
The great rush of "this age of steam and lightning" demands methods of writing thoughts and ideas, reporting speeches, and making memoranda of transactions, that can keep pace with the most rapid thought and fluent speech. This demand is largely met by what is generally called Phonography, but better understood as "Short-Hand Writing." This expeditious mode of writing has been taught in this Institution for several years with very satisfactory results, giving those who have acquired it thoroughly a very decided advantage over those who have failed to secure it.
The Short-Hand writer is now considered one of the most useful, and is one of the best paid employees of a business office. A business man may dictate to him in an hour as many letters as he could write in a day, and while these letters are being written on the Type-Writer, he can give his time to other important features of the business. There is hardly a business of importance in any city now, that does not need the services of at least one Short-Hand writer, and in some offices several are employed.
Short-Hand is as easy to learn as the common branches of study, and can be acquired by any person who has a fair idea of the correct pronunciation and spelling of words, no matter how young.
Phonography is any system of writing with signs more brief and speedy than the letters employed in ordinary writing. There are many systems of Short-Hand in use, and a much larger number that have proven valueless. The system taught in this and all leading institutions of this country is "Standard Phonography" by Andrew J. Graham. This system is used by a large majority of the reporters of the United States.
Our method of teaching this branch,
combines class and individual instruction;
using blackboard illustrations and exercises,
and also paper, pen and ink in writing
from dictation, and exercises in reading
under direct instruction of a skilled teacher.
There is a good demand for Short-Hand writers as Secretaries, Amanuenses, and Reporters for Courts, Conventions, Newspapers, and as Corresponding Clerks for business men of all kinds who have much correspondence to do. Short-Hand Clerks are employed in Railroad, Express and Shipping offices, in the offices of Lawyers, Mercantile and Manufacturing Houses, and in all departments of the National Government.
Students in this department also have special instruction in Penmenship, TypeWriting, Spelling, Grammar, and Business Correspondence.
Any young man or woman who will learn to write Short-Hand, and use the Type-Writer to write out the Short-Hand notes, will find ready and pleasant employment, at good pay.
ment, at good PK.
We have had, in the past year, very many more applications for Short-Hand writers, to fill good paying positions, than there were students ready to fill them.
there were students ready LADIES will find this a peculiarly good chance for paying employment.
since for paying the rent No field now offers young men and ladies better opportunities for pleasant and profitable employment than this.
The time required to complete this course is from five to eight months varying according to the application and ability of the student. But a small proportion of those who take up the study without the aid of a teacher ever master the art; and those who succeed without a teacher find that it requires from one to three years to attain the proficiency that can be acquired in five or six months by the student under the care of a competent teacher.
Type Writing
Type Writers are now used for much of the copying and letter writing done in the offices of merchants, lawyers, manufacturers, bankers, and mercantile offices of all kinds. The possibility of writing twice as rapidly making several copies at once, and the work as plain as print, are the principal advantages of Type-Writing over the pen, for certain kinds of writing. It is almost a necessity that every one writing Short-Hand should be able to operate the Type-Writer, and by taking a little time for practice each day while learning the former, students become very proficient Type-Writers.
ACADEM1C COURSE.
The course in this department is designed to prepare young ladies and gentlemen for the freshman year of the University of Kansas or similar institutions. It is believed to be as complete as that of any similar course prescribed in the best eastern academies. The regents and faculties of higher schools urgently call attention to the need of more thorough work in this direction, from the fact that a large majority of candidates for admission to their institutions are found to be very deficient in preparatory work, especially in elementary English.
pecially in elementary schools. We have sought to make the work in this department such as will meet the wants of those who desire to enter the best institutions of our land, and so complete in itself that any student completing nothing more than this course will have received systematic and symmetrical mental culture. In short, this institution provides the best and most efficient means of imparting to young men and women a liberal academic education.
To provide for those not prepared to enter upon the academic work proper, a sub-preparatory course has been arranged in which instruction is provided in the common branches.
Information—Academic Course.
Pupils of the academic department are urged to begin at the first of the term if possible, but students entering at any time will be provided for as well as our class work will permit.
Three Terms Each Year.
Three Terms Each Year.
The academic year is divided into three terms. The First Term begins September 1st, Second Term December 5th, Third Term March 8th.
Requirements for Admission.
Requirements for Admission.
Applicants for admission are required to give satisfactory evidence of a good moral character. Students may be admitted to the junior or senior classes by sustaining a satisfactory examination in the preceding parts of the course; in this case, if the student has not had the regular class exercises of the term or terms so passed, he will receive a class record of 80.
Conditions of Graduation.
1. Three years' study, as prescribed, or its equivalent.
The candidates must have the following qualifications:
2. Satisfactory examinations in all branches.
Medals and Diplomas.
A gold medal will be given the student who shall excel in deportment and scholarship. Only students in the regular academic course will be allowed to contest for this medal.
An appropriate and elegantly designed diploma will be awarded all students completing the course in a satisfactory manner.
Superior Advantages.
1. This institution is situated in a city of churches and schools, amid surroundings of unsurpassed beauty.
2. It gives the best training in the least possible time.
3. The student is subjected to the combined energies of practical education, academic training and moral culture.
4. The faculty is composed of men and women of experience and scholarly attainments.
5. The pupil receives a through drill in pemanship and drawing without extra charge.
6. The institution's diploma will be a guarantee of scholarship and merit.
7. It furnishes the means whereby young men and women who cannot complete a full college course may gain mental discipline and breadth of culture not secured in a more preparatory school. To that end the course embraces many important studies not usually required for admission to higher institutions.
admission to school.
8. Our system of personal instruction enables the one who are deficient in any branch to select studies upon which they can devote their entire energies, our curriculum being so flexible that it will allow young men whose previous training has been neglected in some of the departments of education to enter—not infrequently classes to struggle up through a long, rigid course—but, by desiring their entire energies to that end, they lack the most, and stimulated by the endeavors of others in like institution and assisted personally by those who are laboring for their individual good, they will be enabled to make up past deficiencies without the loss of self esteem. Aside from this merit, the student has the satisfaction of knowing that his work is not pursued in an institution where it is necessarily considered a side issue.
Classical Course.
Arithmetic,
Latin,
English,
Penmanship,
Latin,
Greek,
Algebra
History,
Natural Philosophy,
Latin
(greek)
History
Outlines of History
Drawing
Education
Academic Course.
General Scientific. Latin Scientific.
FIRST YEAR
Arithmetic, Arithmetic,
Latin Latin
English English,
Penmanship Penmanship,
SECOND YEAR.
Latin Latin,
German German,
Algebra Algebra,
U.S. History U.S. History,
Natural Philosophy Natural Philosophy,
THIRD YEAR.
French French,
German German,
Geometry Geometry,
Presence of History Presence of history,
Drawing Drawing,
Rhetoric Rhetoric,
Modern Literature
Arithmetic,
Latin,
English,
Penmanship,
Latin,
German,
Algebra,
History,
Natural Philosophy,
French,
German,
English
Outlines of History
Drawing,
History
Biography