The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-01-06
PoLITIohL ECONOMY.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.
The course pursued in this is the same as that
in the Law Department; the subjects discussed
being: the Laws of Wealth, Production, Distri-
button and Consumption of Capital. Tariffs,
Revenue, Currency, Exchange, the Laws of La
bor and Capital Industry. Taxation, Civil Gov
ernment, dc.
COUNTERFEIT MONEY.
Special Lectures on the art of Detecting Al
tered, Spurious and Counterfeit Bank Notes,
with descriptions of the processes of Altering,
Counterfeiting, de-, with history of the rise
and progress of Bank Note Engraving in the
United States and Europe.
BUSINESS PAPERS.
Every student is thoroughly drilled in pre-
pairing all the different kinds Of business papers,
such as drawing, accepting and endorsing Notes,
Drafts and Bills of Exchange, Bills of Sale,
Checks, Orders. Letters of Credit, the different
methods of making out and rendering Accounts
Current, Account Sales, Balance Sheets, Articles
of Agreement, DC. A complete knowledge of
these subjects is regarded as absolutely necessa-
~ before graduating.
BUSIN ESS CORRESPONDENCE
Includes instruction in the art of Composition
and Letter Writing, showing how to obtain a
condensed and perspicuous style. Careful at
tentiou is paid to the orthography and grammat-
ical construction so as to enable Che student to
produce letter which will be at once beautiful
and impressive. The great number of beauti-
folly written letters from Students, row on file
in the College, attest the value and efficiency of
this departments
LECTURES.
A regular course of daily Lectures, by the
Principals on Commercial Ethics, Business
Customs, and the theory and practice of
Bookkeeping, illustrating the science by prac-
tical examples from actual business in Partner
ship Changes and Settlements.
SCHOLARSHIPS,
For the. FULL COMMERCIAL COURSE, ad-
mitting the Student to an unlimited attendance,
with the privilege of reviewing at any future
time, free of charge are issued only at the office
of the College.
M1s1srERs' Sons UNDER 81 I--.. 20 90
DIPLOMAS.
Upon completing the course of study, and
jects of study, and on no other conditions. are
Diplomas ever granted.
SPECIAL INFORMATION.
There being no vacations, and no term diyis-
IONS Students can enter at any time. Day and
Evening Sessions throughout the year, enabling
those who can attend evenings only to complete
vance according to his ability; no one being re-
tarded by the progress of another, or compelled
TO proceed faster than he is prepared to go; the
average time to complete course being eight
weeks, though some do it in less time. while
others require more Where Students can, it is
advisable that they extend, rather than shorten
the time of their attendance here.
STATIONERY, BOOKS, DC.
Our Stationery is of the very best quality, and
i A. A.
| Our Blanks, which are all made to order, are of
the finest quality of paper, and manufactured in
! the best style-a single set being worth more
| than half a dozen such as those used in other
schools in this vicinity, while the cost is but a
very little increased. The whole OUTFIT of Books,
Blanks and Stationery, for the entire course,
costing only from s5 to 81.
BOARD.
The usual price, in respectable private fami-
lies, with furnished rooms, is $500. In Hotels,
! from $500 to $500 BY giving the Principals
a few days notice of the time when students are
expected to enter, students will be provided, on
their arrival, with suitable boarding places, and
thus saved much Inconvenience and some ex-
pense-
SITUATIONS FOR BUSINESS
We are often asked if we guarantee situations
to our students. Our invariable answer is, NO.
But we do guarantee to every intelligent, indus
trious young man thorough practical business
education, such, that if possessed of energy and
good habits, he viii find no difficulty in obtain
ing plenty of good situations. The College is
not an Intelligence Office its design is to prepars
young men for business, not to procure situations
for them. But it will always afford us pleasure
to be able to assist competent and worthy young
men in procuring situations; and since we never
recommend any but persons whom we are satis-
fed are competent and faithful no fee is ever
charged or accepted from either the employed or
4 AID nl,,I1a -
show another institution in the United States
| which has secured as many prominent and prof
table situations for its patrons during the last
| six years as this. ~ sass saT
| RETURNED SOLDIERS.
And others out of employment, viii find a
course of study here to be the cheapest and sur
| est way to secure remunerative employment.
Large numbers of returned and disabled soldiers
/ have already ayailed themselves of the advanta-
ges of obtaining course of training here, and
are now occupying some of the best business
situations in the country.
LIBRARY AND READING ROOMS.
The Library and Reading Rooms of the
! ~YOUNG MEMS MERCANTILE LIBRARY
] ASSOCIATION, fitted up in elegant style,
and supplied with the largest number of books
magazines, periodicals and newspapers West Of
the Mountains, are located in the college build
ing for the trifing sum of thirty-three cents
4
8 A. NJ till 10 P. NJ The advantages thence de-
rived are too obvious to render comment neces-
sary.
GALLERY OF FINE ARTS.
Our Gallery of Fine Arts, which includes the
greatest amount of finely executed specimens Of
Pen Drawing, Pen Shading, Lettering, Flour
ishing, Gard Writing and Business Penmanshir
of every variety of style in the United Stat $
if not in the world, is open at all times to visit
ors.
/ GOVERNMENT AND DISCIPLINE.
Every student, upon entering the school, is
received gentleman, and viii be so treated
1 as long as he remains connected with the Col.
lege. But inattention to business, habitual neg,
ligence, rude, boisterpus and ungentlemanly con.