THE COLLEGE REVIEW.
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VOL. 3.—No. 2.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS. JUNE, 1888.
CIRCULATION, 75.000.
THE COLLEGE REVIEW.
PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE
LAWRENCE BUSINESS COLLEGE
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ACADEMY OF ENGLISH AND CLASSICS.
This paper covers the main ground for information respecting the institution it represents. Our new Catalogue is in course of preparation, and will be ready to mail about the first of July.
E. L. McILRAVY,
Superintendent.
P. T. FOLEY, Printer, Lawrence, Kas.
The American Business College.
The American Business College. An extract from a paper by S. S. Packard, read before the Business Educators association, held at Jacksonville, Ill., July 9th, 1885.
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We meet here in the interest of fifty thousand young men and women who yearly seek through business schools a preparation for life and when it is known that the constituency is yearly growing larger instead of smaller, and that there is to-day no class of schools having such vitality, or such a hold upon the public. I give all the excuse that is necessary for dwelling with enthusiasm upon the great work that is before us.
And first, I will say that I honestly believe that the past history of the BusinessCollege of America bears about the same relation to its future history as do the past developments of steam and electricity to the immediate possibilities which we plainly see.
Until it is settled beyond dispute that an honest practical education, such an education as will enable its possessor to take care of himself and not become a burden to his friends or society, is an injury, no one can truthfully invigilge against the multiplication of Business Colleges. And for the comfort of any who may have felt alarmed at the spread of these institutions I would say that just as soon as business Colleges fall to meet the wants of the public they will cease to exist. * * * * * *
Every young man and every young woman in this country should make sure of some means of an honest livelihood—should be able to do some kind of service that somebody is willing to pay for Methods of business are constantly changing and the nature of services to meet the requirements must also change. During the past few years almost a complete revolution has taken place in the matter of correspondence. The invention of the typewriter following that of the sewing machine has reduced the sum of human labor and made it possible for men whose moments were golden, to delegate much of what was formerly mere drudgery and friction to the nimble fingers and brains of those to whom the duty and its remuneration are a blessing. * * * * * *
- *t* *t* A few years ago the number of persons who were capable of taking down
a speech verbatim might be almost counted on one's fingers; a few years hence no intelligent girl will think her education complete unless she able to take a speech and reproduce in fair print promptly and well. And this change will be wrought through the American Business College.
There are two distinct ideas of education: One that it is an instrument, the other that it is the hand that wields the instrument. Both ideas are correct, but in all true education the hand and the instrument are equally considered. A sharp instrument in an unskillful hand is a dangerous weapon and a dull instrument in a skillful hand is ineffective, but a sharp instrument in a skillful hand makes a combination by which the work of the world can best be done.
When Mr. Greeley said that there were a thousand college graduates in New York who did not know how to earn a living, it was not to inveigh against the mental force, and culture of these persons nor against the institutions that sent them forth. He simply implied that the tools with which they were familiar were not adapted to the work around them that needed doing. It is a cheap and unworthy thing to say of a liberal education that it is worthless because the college graduate cannot keep a set of books or make out a bill of goods equal to a trained clerk. The college graduate who has earned his diploma is a skillful hand, and he of all others should be able to turn his disciplined mind into productive channels. If the college graduate cannot keep a set of books and wants to, all he has to do is to learn how. If he cannot report a speech or take a letter from dictation, it is not because there has been a mistake in his education but because his education has not been carried far enough. If he has done himself credit in his six years of study he is in the best possible condition to take up the instruments of the world's busy work and familiarize himself with them.
I am not one who can be led into denunciation of the highest methods of mental culture, and while I am pleased to know that the exigences of American life have necessitated important changes in the curricula of our ancient seats of learning, and some times am free to think that this has been effected mainly through the proved efficiency of business colleges. I do not believe in doing away with or cheapening classical culture. It may be, and doubtless is true, as Mr. Adams has charged, that in individual cases wrong is done in making a fetch of the dead languages, but Greek and Latin may profitably be pursued without injury to brains or morals. I do feel, however, that the substitution of the modern and spoken tongue for much of the time which in the old regime was given to Greek and Latin white, it is in accordance with modern ideas is in the interest of true culture.
What is known as the learned professions must still give a favorable learning to this privileged class, but boys who expect to make their mark in business feel, and with some reason, that their actual contact with life must begin at an early age and before their habits are
too rigidly fixed in directions not conducive to the desired end. Such impulses and conclusions are not to be set aside and as far as that goes sensible parents do not undertake to set it aside. If the boy will not take to a profession and will go to business, why, go to business he must, and it would be simply foolish to insist upon educating him for a profession in order to prepare him for business.
order to prepare you for it. It is a grave responsibility which the business college assumes when it steps in at this juncture and agrees to do for the young man's business career what the classical and professional schools would otherwise do for his professional career.
This is the work, my fellow-creatures,
in which we are engaged, and these are
the interests which we meet here to advance.
Can there be work more important or interests more dear? * * *
* * * * * * * Who are to be the alumn of the business colleges fifty years hence? The men who build and freight ocean steamships, who belt the earth with railroads, who make great cities in waste places, who keep the looms and spindles in motion, who initiate and perfect grand enterprises, systemize and promote magnificent charities and make the world a pleasant place to live in. The son of a poor shoemaker in Pennsylvania came to the Buffalo Business College when I was its temporary manager. At the conclusion of his course I obtained for him a place at four dollars a week. Fifteen years later he was summoned before Congress charged with the crime of creating a panic in the money market of New York by withdrawing his private deposit from the banks, amounting to five millions of dollars. The five millions did not make him a man, but it takes a good deal of a man to honestly acquire five millions of dollars, and ever so much more of a man to spend it wisely. And there are the men that our business colleges of to-day are sending out. Are they worthy of recognition? Do they deserve anything at our hands? Are we not in duty bound to so conduct our work that they will be as proud of us as we are of them.
On Choosing a Business.
Much of future success depends on this, parents have a great responsibility here. In nature we find variety in all things. No two of her productions are alike. So, too, of the human mind—each individuality is fitted to some particular sphere. Many a young, enterprising spirit has been sacrificed upon the altar of Ignorance. Young mental prodigies, upon whom it would seem had fallen the immortal mantle of a Shakespeare, or to whom had been bequeathed the business capacity of a Girard, are inhumanly imured to the fire of some ignorant smith; while blockheads are forced into a profession, in the hope of dignifying a name, or the senseless pedigree of an ambitious family.
Life has great responsibilities. Obstacles are to be met and overcome. A proper choice of business will do much to conquer the difficulties of a business life, and render easy what would otherwise be found burdensome. Thus one must first study to become acquainted with himself.
Every one should know the capacity of his own brain—the leading traits of his own character; and thus, in choosing a business, be able to make an intelligent selection. For the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of one's abilities and aptitudes we believe there is no better means than a good business education. It brings out the latent capacities, and shows what there is in a young man. Were the plan generally adopted of giving all young men a general business training, there would be fewer failures in life than now. Many mistakes would be avoided, and talents which now go to waste would be utilized. Young men would then understand themselves better, and be enabled to choose their business or profession more intelligently. Also, in their subsequent career, whatever their calling, they would find this training of vast importance, and a great help to success. To parents, we say: Send your sons to a good business college, where their faculties can be brought out and disciplined by a careful training in the practice of mercantile principles—then they will be far better fitted to choose a calling for themselves; and, having chosen it, pursue it to a successful termination —Exchange.
Cheap Education.
The more generally that education lies within the reach of the masses, the better it is for the welfare of the country. Yet there is a kind of "cheap" education arising from the employment of cheap teachers which is especially disastrous in its effects on the minds of the young. As a rule cheap rates of tuition are looked upon with distrust by the public and generally with reason, since except in the case of schools liberally endowed, they can only result from the employment of poor teachers.
An excellent authority on educational matters recently expressed himself on this subject in the following sensible and businesslike manner: "Cheap wages must result in cheap teachers; and cheap teachers will naturally cultivate cheap minds, which will fit the pupil for living a cheap life—that is, not attaining to any occupation above a mediocre. Let the subject of cheap teachers be thoroughly discussed, and it will be found at once that the great majority of the educated minds of the country are not in favor of cheap educators." The difference in price between good and bad instruction is small. The difference in results is great. A few dollars more spent in getting a superior education may make a difference of thousands of dollars to you in your future business relations. Therefore, do not trust to cheap instruction. You cannot be too careful in selecting a good school. It is the most important step of your life, as your success or failure in great part depend upon it. A good education will bring you happiness, a poor one, disappointment. Do not try to save a few dollars, and thus ruin your prospects for life.
The attendance at this institution, for year ending March 15, is 405, represent thirteen states and thirty-six counties in Kansas. We have every reason to believe that this number will be increased one third next year.
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HINTS TO YOUNG MEN.
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WHICH WILL YOU
CHOOSE?
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
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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
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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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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.
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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.
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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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We live in an age of steam and electricity; the magnetic wire is quivering from east to west, across the ocean and continents, while the tide of activity is coursing onward with corresponding velocity over the vast ocean of commerce leaving to wealth and distinction all who are good pilots, and to poverty and oblivion all who do not understand the points of the compass.
The commercial interests of our country have attained to such immense proportions, and has so thoroughly monopolized the brain and muscles of our people that all departments of our lives are so per vaded with business ideas, customs and maxims, that the success depends largely and almost universally on a thorough and practical knowledge of them.
The great profession of business is wider than any other. In fact it is the profession of all professions, because by it we are able to purchase and enjoy the fruits of all others. Its laws, its usages, its methods, its vocabulary, established by common consent of business men, are now reduced to a science which can be, and is as successfully taught as any of the other professions.
The young man or woman who enters any of the numerous avenues of business to-day without the training which a first class Business College imparts, does so with the same disadvantages that the physician does who has not attended a theological seminary, and his chances of success are no better.
The age in which we live, the advanced methods of doing business, the rapidity of transportation, ease of communication, and the complicated machinery of business all demand preparation. He who enters the commercial race of to-day with any hope of success must be trained—thoroughly trained for his work. He must think quickly and act promptly and properly. He must not only know what to do, but how and when to do it.
Every business man has a right to expect that all professing to be business men, and who desire to transact business with him are familiar with the customs, usages, laws and practices of commercial and business transactions. He does not consider it any part of his duty to explain the character or the rights and obligations of the parties under a bill of lading, a warehouse receipt, a draft, a check, bill of exchange, contract, bond, deed or mortgage. He is not a lecturer on mercantile law or mercantile morals, and has neither time nor inclination to instruct those whose duty it is to be familiar with all these things before engaging his attention.
The vast majority of those whose active minds and busy hands direct and control the complex net-work of systems which are necessitated by our numerous commercial and manufacturing interests are former students of commercial colleges; and of those an overwhelming majority were poor boys and young men whose only capital in life was their business education and integrity of character. No better investment of time or money can be made than in acquiring knowledge of business affairs.
The demand for competent, educated stenographers conversant with business forms and customs has increased one hundred fold within the past two years; and any one who will master any of the practical courses given in the Lawrence Business College and Academy will carry with him a positive guarantee of lucrative employment.
Short-Hand, Type Writing and Correspondence.
WHERE TO BE STUDIED; THE BOST SYSTEM TO STUDY; THE TIME REQUIRED TO LEARN THE ART; THE REMUMERATION ITS PRACTICE AFFORDS; THE NECESSITY OF SHORT-HAND WRITING; AND THE PROBABLE CHANCES OF OBTAINING EMPLOYMENT AFTER IT IS ACQUIRED.
To meet the numerous inquiries, we are constantly receiving in regard to Short-hand writing, we have deemed it expedient to publish the following sketch and thereby endeavor to answer more in detail and more satisfactorily than we could by personal letters, the questions which are of most interest to the student about to enter upon the stenographic profession.
The Necessity of Short-Hand Writing.
What electricity is to business, steam driven machinery is to power, phonography or short-hand writing is to the rapid placing of one's thoughts or ideas upon paper. In this age of enterprise, inventions, and continual hurry, when lightning express trains are too slow for business men, the ordinary method of writing is too slow for editors, judges, courts, where testimony must
be taken, and managers of extensive business enterprises who have much correspondence. The services of a competent stenographer being considered indispensable for the dictation of business letters, papers, law-briefs, etc. All admit its great value in the rapid transaction of business, and the extent to which it is used in the professional and business world is only limited by the supply of competent writers: new avenues for the employment of Short-hand writers are opened up everywhere, and the great question to-day for the would-be-stenographer is—not shall I be able to find employment, but am I competent to fill the positions that are ready to be filled?
Mainly through the invention of the Type-writer has the art of Phonography in its various forms found a field of usefulness that was scarcely contemplated by the most enthusiastic friends of its earlier days. Through the happy combination of short hand and the type writer, there has come great good to the business man, and he is thoroughly convinced of the fact that there is a shorter and better way of conducting business correspondence than by the tedious and laborious process of hand and pen.
What System to Choose.
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 short-hand schools in the country is "Standard Phonography" by Andrew J. Graham. This system is used by a large majority of the reporters of the United States. Some of the evidences that it is the standard, and the one that the wise student should adopt are as follows:
The fact that those who have learned other systems almost invariably "switch off" on the "Graham," and endeavor to adopt the speed expedients of his system in order to patch out the deficiencies of the system they have learned, thereby greatly increasing their speed and proficiency in reporting. The fact that this system is used wholly or in part by a large majority of the reporters of the United States, and that Graham's works have been adopted as text books in most commercial and other colleges. The fact that many of the distinguishing characteristics of Standard Phonography have been appropriated or imitated by rival authors. The fact that the text books of this system meet with an immense and steadily increasing sale; and the fact that a fair and honest comparison of the principles of speed, legibility, etc., of Standard Phonography, with those of other systems, will demonstrate that Standard Phonography is as far ahead of the alleged easy angle-worm system as a
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SCIENCE CROWNS THE INDUSTRIES.
BY JOSEPH STOTLER.
O farmer, a crown will be placed on thy head;
And thou be made king among men:
T thy toll and thy wisdom gives nations their bread;
And thou art justly placed at the head
Of all of the kingly train.
And thou at the left so awarthy and brown,
Mechanic with hammer in hand,
Thy blows have well earned thy right to the crown
That brings the contentment and wealth and renown;
And gives the a right to command.
O sailor, who braves the wild storms of the sea,
And cuts a wide pathway of foam.
Thy calling a noble as noble can be;
A crown for thy labor is waiting for thee,
Awarded by loved ones at home.
The merchant who brings to the ice-locked North the wealth of the tropical climes. Deserves to receive a bright crown for this worth; And stand among nations as crowned the fourth Great monarch among modern times.
No stains on the thrones nor the sceptor thus earned; Desolation ne'er lurked in their shade: But deserts to Gardens of Paradise turned And brighter the incense to liberty burned When to them true honors were paid.
'Tis Science, fair goddess, that holds in her hand
The crown of true worth to be given to-day;
The sword and the battle-axe at her command,
Unlaureled and unhonored in every land,
Are laid rasting and worthless away.
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portions is prime, porque it is judged.
In our judgment, the pupil who selects a system of short-hand because it is alleged to be easy, has already shown himself deficient in the qualities that go to make up a short-hand writer, and his failure is assured from the start.
Where to Study Short-Hand.
There are a number of very good schools where the theory of short-hand is taught, and they undoubtedly serve their purpose as well as such schools can. The greatest objection to them is that they are generally conducted by persons who have had no practical experience as reporters. There are a large number of schools that advertise a thorough course in short-hand when they have a teacher to give instructions only one hour or so each day or evening, and no teacher for penmanship, grammar, or correspondence. With us, we have a competent reporter of large experience, who devotes his whole time and attention to the teaching of short-hand only, and he is assisted by a competent teacher of short-hand and type writing. In addition to these we have another instructor who looks after the grammar, and still another who instructs in business correspondence, spelling, and penmanship, thus forming a complete school of short-hand, type writing and correspondence, for beginners and advanced writers, which is unequaled by any other institution in this country.
The success of the short-hand department of the representative business colleges and the compulsiveness of their work have been incentives that have led many novices to establishing little inferior concerns with one or two teachers, a little room, a few tables, with enough students to form a class, after which he proclaims the merits of his business college or short-hand school with all the assurance of an old established institution, hoping to win on the strength of the title, and the reputation of worthy institutions. Beware of such shams, also beware of Business and Short-hand departments in some of our literary colleges; they are simply appendages to attract students, and are usually conducted by some young man who is teaching and carrying his regular course of study in connection, and who is not competent to hold a position in any business college of good standing. We could dwell upon this subject much longer but space forbids, and we have already said enough to put the intelligent reader on his guard.
The Lawrence Business College has been years attaining to the prominence it now enjoys. The aim has been to establish it in favor solely on its merits, and success has been achieved beyond the sanguine expectations of its promoters. It is flattering to receive students from points so remote as Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, California, Illinois, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and from nearly every state in the union. They sought instruction beyond that of Book-keeping or short hand; they wanted the benefit of the thorough instruction and the extensive practice offered in our various departments, all of which schools of limited facilities cannot give. Students wishing to consult their best interests, save time and money, and what is worth more to them—obtain a knowledge of Short Hand and Type Writing and their allied branches, which will save them years of hard labor when they enter the field of reporting or amanuensis work in mercantile establishments, will attend the Lawrence Business College.
"There is Always Room Upstairs."
This is quite true of short-hand. It is true that one must devote his whole attention to become a "professional" in any line of work. Our professional stenographers receive the highest salaries and the most certain employment of any of the employees in public or private life; the daily journals cannot do without them; in all grave cases courts must have them; the lecture, the sermon, the debate, and the political speech, can only reach the eager world through their instrumentality; they are the most essential factors in all the departments of state and national government, state legislatures and the national congress can hardly convene without them; and everywhere they receive the best of salaries. The best proof that the demand exceeds, the supply will be found in your answer to the question, "do you know a capable professional reporter out of employment?" You cannot give the same answer to a like question about any other profession.
Short-Hand by Mail
Did you ever hear of anybody that made a success of it?
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This of all studies needs the living teaching continuity of effort, and concentration of mind. You might as well hope to master it under the instruction of a teacher who drawled out his instruction at the rate of ten words per hour, and retain the connection and be roused to enthusiasm as to expect to gain much benefit from a letter once to your wants, and that to ill admonish your wants. If you wish to amuse yourself, select a class-mate, buy a text book, and teach each other (as suggested by the author of a late text book for that purpose), and in the course of a few years you will probably be able to write as rapidly as by long hand.
Obtaining Situations.
We can usually place in a good position any worthy pupil who has good qualifications, and can make his services valuable to himself and his employer; but we make no promises to do so in any given case. Our business is solely of that instruction. When a student is competent to perform the duties of an amanuensis with credit to himself and our school, we have no hesitancy in saying that there are positions waiting for him; in fact, good paying positions are always open to those who possibly acquire this art, and we must best endeavor to secure them for him. The systematic plan of our bureau for soliciting information from business houses and corporations in different towns and cities throughout the west, enables the school to render valuable services to deserving students, and we generally find suitable places for those of our pupils who need assistance; but before we recommend a pupil for a position, he must be able to write from dictation at the rate of one hundred words per minute, read readily what he has written, and transcribe it correctly on the type writer. At the rate of thirty words per minute, have a good knowledge of English Grammar, Spelling, Letter Writing and be able to write a fair business hand. This is not difficult to do, and we need not operate as a discouragement to any one wishing to take up the study. During the past two years there has never been a time when the applications for amanuensis were not in excess of the ability of the school to supply. There may be and doubtless is a floating contingency of alleged short-hand and type writers looking for positions—but you are never Lawrence Business College graduates—never! Such a thing could not be.
Stenographers Furnished.
Law offices, banks, railroad offices, business firms, and all persons wishing a stenographer and type writer, office assistant, bookkeeper, etc. may be supplied with such equipment at the Lawrence Business College without charge for services. State what qualifications are required and the salary you are willing to pay for just such services as you wish, and we will do our best to select a person who will do your work with entire satisfaction. We stake the reputation of the school on those whom we recommend, but please do not hold us responsible for the qualification of parties representing themselves to be students or graduates from this institution, without a recommendation from the School.
TO TEACHERS AND THOSE PREPARING TO TEACH.
Do You Dread Examinations?
Are You Preparing to Teach?
Are You Deficient in any Branch?
Do You Want a Botter Position and a Higher Salary?
Do You Seek to Become More Proficient In School Work?
Are there Any Branches which You Wish to Review?
Would You Like to View School-work from a Pupils Stand-point?
Have You “Become Rusty” In Any of the School Branches?
Are You Looking Forward to a Liberal Education?
Have You Any Idle Time during the Summer Months which you Wish to Employ?
In short, if you are not completely satisfied with your present position, salary and ability allow us to call your attention to our
Do You Dread Examinations?
EIGHT WEEKS NORMAL INSTITUTEBeginning June 12th.
THOROUGH INSTRUCTION WILL BE GIVEN IN
ARITHMETIC, ENGLISH GRAMMAR, U. S. HISTORY, CIVIL
GOVERNMENT, ELEMENTS OF BOOK-KEEPING,
PENMANSHIP, PHYSIOLOGY, DRAWING, ELOCUTION, SCIENCE OF TEACHING AND VOCAL MUSIC.
SUPPLEMENTED BY
CLASS WORK, LECTURES, DRILLS, REVIEWS AND EXAMINATIONS.
To teachers and those preparing to teach, this school will commend itself. The professors in charge will have a definite interest in each pupil. The necessity of constant effort on the teacher's part, and additional means of instruction is apparent to all; to meet this want, teachers' institutes are organized in every County, and in their sphere do a grand work; yet it is generally conceded that the use of the text-book in institute work leads but to comparative failure; and although the County Superintendents would necessarily take pride in a large attendance, the majority would calmly advise nine-tenths of the teachers to enter some school devoted especially to their interests if possible. All teachers do not need the same class of work; and to sit patiently day after day listening to that in which they are in a great measure uninterested would do violence to the accepted principles of education.
to the accepted principles of education. With us, the teacher devotes his entire attention to those branches in which he is most deficient, with the privilege of taking part in such other exercises as may be best suited to his needs. In short, this work will be equivalent to several institutes combined, offering a choice of exercises to the student. All subjects will be treated as much as may be by the topical method, dealing only with the difficult parts and mastering them thoroughly.
EXAMINATIONS.
Numerous searching examinations upon the various branches will familiarize all with the requirements of examination day.
CERTIFICATES.
We will issue certificates to those completing in a satisfactory manner any branch pursued.
TUITION.
The tuition for the term is $8.00.
Be Sure and Investigate Before Going Elsewhere.
To Mercantile and Business Aspirants :
WOUD YOU SECURE HONORABLE EMPLOYMENT, OR BE PROMOTED TO A HIGHER POSITION?
Attend the Short-Hand Department of the Lawrence Business College and Academy, and study Short-Hand and Type Writing at six months, and thus qualify yourself as an amanuensis.
Young men and women have only to master Photography to make it a source of profit to themselves and their employers.
There is no field of labor in this country, open to young men and women as certainly remunerative as this. It is a calling not likely to be crowded, and there must continue to be a greater demand than supply.
u曼nan than supply.
Attend the BUSINESS DEPARTMENT of the Lawrence Business College and Academy six months, and then attend EDUCATION that is always at par value in every profession, education for the great work of life, that is called, and days' transaction. Education that qualifies young men and women as some useful and paying positions. Education that none can attain and that many, daily doys, mate and fail with more to, a treadmill existence. Education that enables men to rise, and 'he a hero in the strife'.
Young Men and Ladies!
Remember that, outside of the arena of politics, superior qualifications secure superior positions, and that in every sphere of life, accounts of the age for educated and honest men and women. The man who progress rolls on the wheels of education, and the man who aspires to position of the most commendable results, to the employment of the man who is praised dearly of mankind, to the loftest planes of financial success, to stand one or more of the special departments of the Lawrence Business College and Academy.
NO VACATION.
This 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 or Short Hand Course of study.
clement time to pursue a business or short and constant life. Now is the time to strike a career and must always be prepared for difficulties which may arise which will prevent your future from being so sacrificed education he lost for ever.
your coming, and thus the coveter count.
Catalogue string full information, sent free. Address,
E. L. McILRAVY, Superintendent.
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