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HINTS TO YOUNG MEN.
TWO WAYS BEFORE YOU-
WHICH WILL YOU
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How young Men and Women May Get a Start and Gain Competency,Influence, and Independence, Is Taught
At the Lawrence Business College. The Training Fits Them Intelligently To Enter the Active Arenas of Life.
At the commencement of your career in life you will see before you many paths. Some lead to success, to wealth, to honor and influence; others lead to disappointment, to poverty, and disgrace, to nothingness. Choose now which way you will go. On the one hand you will find independence and true manhood; on the other, want and degradation. You must make your choice now. It will be too late by and bye. You can trust the future only when you use the present. It is easier to go down hill than up hill. It is less difficult to follow along the beaten path of chance than to strike out boldly for yourself, and conquer success in the face of all obstacles. In most young men there is a tendency to indolence; a disposition to let circumstances push him along, rather than to try to control the circumstances. This is the great danger constantly threatening the young. It must be overcome.
HOW IT SHALL BE DONE.
One of the greatest aids to persistent and successful effort is to be found in an early business training. No young man should venture into the intricacies of affairs without it. A business education is one of the shortest and surest paths to success. Thousands of young in this country owe their successful career to it. It gives opportunities to young men which would otherwise be beyond their reach. By its aid the humblest may hope to win for himself an honorable position. It is not only a trade by which one may at any time earn a living, but opens avenues by which a young man may pass from the service of others to a safe and remunerative business of his own. Young men, you will find it a good thing; therefore get it, and having obtained it, use it as a stepping stone to honest independence and respectable social standing. WHAT CONSTITUES A BUSINESS TRAINING. By a business training we do not mean an education which merely fits you for book-keepers, which makes only machines of you for adding up columns and keeping accounts; but a training which will fit you for all departments of business and trade, which will give you an insight into human nature and teach you to act with confidence in your own powers and abilities. An education that teaches men to look in various directions, qualifying them for different pursuits, enabling them to do what they desire and choose, and fitting them to do something else, if that which they select shall not continue to be profitable or desirable. An education such as this is not a matter of a few weeks of superficial study, but the earnest work of months. It cannot be obtained without effort, but will tax your energies to the utmost. It will not merely amuse you with the idea of playing business, but will bring out all your latent resources and instruct you how to make them servicesable in the coming struggle for supremacy.
HOW TO OBTAIN IT.
If you are able, obtain a business education at once. It is not safe to neglect it. An opportunity lost may never be regained. Many are obliged to look back on lost opportunities with regret. Do not be discouraged, however, if you have not
the means for obtaining a practical education immediately at your command. It is of the greatest importance to have an aim in view. Take this for your aim; keep it constantly in view,—think of it, dream of it, work for it—you will then certainly accomplish it. Whenever you have the means at your disposal, enter upon it with spirit and use your money wisely.
BUSINESS COLLEGES NOT ALL ALIKE. There are all grades of Business Colleges. The whole specialty should not be judged by the character of one, nor by the results produced by one. Each individual school should be judged by its facilities and achievements. There have always been small pretentious schools living on the reputation of efficient ones, and doubtless always will be. The greatest care should therefore be exercised in deciding what school to attend The difference in cost between a really good school and one of inferior facilities and influence is trifling, while the difference in results may be vast; generally these small inefficient schools charge the same rate for tuition as the well equipped institutions.
WHAT CONSTITUTES THE BEST SCHOOL.
The accessories of a good school consist first, of a thorough course of study, every point in which has direct reference to availability during the life of the pupil; second, of a faculty, composed of earnest, progressive and experienced teachers; third, such a degree of enthusiasm, emulation and fraternity among pupils and instructors as will awaken a generous and honorable ambition to achieve success in whatever is undertaken during life. And fourth, other things being equal, those schools are best for imparting valuable instruction which are the largest. In a large school there is a greater opportunity to study human nature; and this is one of the most important lessons in life that we have to learn.
Again the class of students that patronize a school has much to do with its usefulness. There are many young men who think the larger the city the better the school, this is a great mistake—schools located in large cities are patronized principally by young boys who reside there, and go to school simply because there parents send them, many of them after having lost all interest in their work at the public schools are placed there as a last resort. A school located in a large city must necessarily depend largely for its support from the city in which it is located, as young men from abroad prefer to attend schools where the expenses for living are lighter and where their attention will not be diverted from their work by the constant turmoil or the evil influences met with on every hand in a large city. The patronage of this institution is made up of the very best class of young men and women of mature minds, the majority of whom are here on their own resources and come with the determination to work and win LAWRENCE, THE GREAT EDUCATIONAL
CENTER OF KANSAS AND THE WEST.
CENTER OF KANSAS AND THE WEST.
Lawrence has justly achieved the reputation of being the "Athens of the West" and the greatest educational center between the Mississippi River and Rocky Mountains. Here is located the Kansas State University, and the National Industrial School for the Indians each having an attendance of many hundreds. Our city has broad streets, street railways, gas, electric light, and a complete system of water-works, beautiful parks (including the famous Bismarck Grove), ample railway facilities furnished by the Santa Fe Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific and Southern Kansas companies whose lines pass through our city. This city is suitably provided with public and private libraries; its people are highly moral and well educated, and on every hand is seen the evidence of culture and refinement. Uniting personal influence with that of the church
organizations and educational institutions in the development of a state of society which is of itself a source of no little good to students who in the formative period of character are too often surrounded by much that is evil.
The large attendance, efficient faculty, broad range of study and the extensive proportions of the institution in general are the causes which, in a large degree, account for the excellence and completeness of the work done by this college; because it is by means of these that we are enabled to establish departments, and classify and systematize perfectly, and thus give a thorough and practical training. A small school could not possibly accomplish this work, because it would be hampered and handicapped at every turn by the scarcity of teachers and pupils and by the lack of suitable equipments. In short, this institution is complete in all its appointments, provisions and fittings, afording ample facilities for the education of young men and women in commercial science and in the elements of a liberal education.
The Desire of Boys for Money Making.
"Most boys who have arrived at the age of sixteen begin to feel an ambition to earn money. This is a laudable desire, and should be encouraged. Many boys have been saved from utter worthlessness by parents who understood this trait of character and were sensible enough to foster it. When this desire begins to manifest itself, it should be cherished and directed to proper ends. The minds of boys must be occupied with something, and the ambition to make money often drives out many evils which otherwise paralyze all efforts for good. When boys become restless or impatient of resraint, it is a sign that it is time for them to occupy their minds with thoughts of money making and of getting on in the world. Turn their thoughts in this direction and usually they will settle down. Try to keep them away from thoughts of doing something for themselves, or to force their minds into a different channel, and it will be almost certain that they will be ruined for life.
This idea explains why so many boys do well in commercial schools when they have failed to accomplish anything at other schools. A business training is certain to have a stealing influence on the mind of a young man. It conveys to him ideas of money making; it fills his mind with plans for getting on in the world, and of trying to be somebody. He soon comprehends that it is a matter of dollars and cents to him, and therefore becomes interested in his work. Parents will do well to think of this, it is a hint which may decide the destiny of their sons." * * *
When a young man leaves home it is generally to enter upon some business, the end of which is to acquire property, and he will succeed just in proportion as he has been trained for his work. Every community is filled with young and middle aged men who are failures because they know nothing of business—their training having been theoretical not practical and useful.
Many are tied to pursuits they heartily dislike and which are much beneath their capacity and ability and would change their course of life and better their condition but for the fact that relatives and friends are more tolerant rather than ennobled the effort. There never has been a time in the history of our country, when expert and intelligent young men who have been taught practical life-lessons and thoroughly educated for business, were in such demand as at present.
So great is the money capital of our country, so sharp is the competition, so great is the value of time and so expert have leading business men become, that young men no longer have a chance to excel, and hardly to succeed in any calling, useless they are trained directly for this changed condition of the times.
BUSINESS COURSE.
A Brief Synopsis Showing Studies Pursued and Practical Plan of Operations.
Our course of study is exactly what is needed in the every day life of every Merchant, Banker, Lawyer, Doctor-clergyman, Teacher, Bookkeeper, Clerk, Artisan, Mechanic, Farmer, Manufacturer, Miner, Navigator, Stock Trader, Laborer, Agent, Partner, Capitalist, Publisher, Proprietor and Public Officer.
REMAARKS ON STUDIES EMBRACED IN THE BUSINESS COURSE.
Book-keeping.
Our Course of Instruction is graded from an introduction of the simple elements in the Science of Accounting to the most elaborate and intricate transactions known in business; and so arranged as to fully inform and satisfy the student's mind at each successive step, and mark for him substantial progress. The philosophy of things is ever kept in view, and nothing permitted to be done without the best reasons therefor. The student is as early as possible taught to think and act independent of an instructor, and to realize that within himself are found the resources upon which he must eventually draw for support in the field of labor open before him.
The work of book-keeping embraces the application of accounts to all the common mercantile employments of life, including miscellaneous merchandising, shipping and consigning, manufacturing, whole sailing, retailing, banking, etc. Upon completing the work prescribed in Book-keeping, Arithmetic, Commercial Law, Grammar, Letter-Writing, Spelling, Penmanship, etc., the student is subject to a thorough examination and receives a voucher admitting him to the
Business Practice Department.
This and the Office Department is the crowning feature of our school and those which have contributed most largely, perhaps to its reputation.
This is an entirely new departure in the line of business education, and is without a doubt the simplest, most direct, and effective method of teaching business that has ever been devised. It puts into actual practice that which the student has learned in the preparatory work; it teaches him accuracy, promptness, perseverance, self-reliance, business customs, business forms and ethics; it imparts habits of energy, industry, and discretion; it familiarizes him with the customs, usages, laws and practices of commercial and business affairs, and thoroughly fits him for doing business in an intelligent and satisfactory manner.
The pupil here becomes in all essential particulars a real business man. He is provided ample capital, the necessary blanks, documents and stationery, and is directed through a course embracing almost every variety of transactions that can possibly occur in business, the keeping of a practical set of books, the drawing of all kinds of documents, including notes, drafts, receipts, checks, leases, mortgages, discharge of mortgages, deeds, power of of attorney, co-partnership and other contracts, mechanic's liens, insurance policies, bonds, etc. It insures a familiarity with the details of business which could otherwise be acquired only by long experience. After the student has completed the pre-
After the student has completed the prescheduled work in the Business Practice Department in a satisfactory manner, he is admitted to the
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Office Department, which consists of a Bank, Jobbing House, Wholesale and Retail Merchandise Emporium, and Commercial Exchange.
The College National Bank sustains the same relation to the pupils engaged in Business Practice Department