Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-11-23
A Western Want Supplied.

IN the west we are pre-eminently prac-
tscat people, and our institutions of learning
should foster such a tendency. In building
up this vast country, we have little time 10
theorize-we want results brought about as
quickly as is compatible with thoroughness.
This is more desirable at this time than at
any period in our history. The young men
who have given the morning of their man
hood, in defense of their country, and those
who have had to till the soil in their absence
when inclination would have led them other
wise, want to be fitted for actual business
life, and that without waste of time.
This want has been supplied by the in
PRODUCTION in Chicago of EAsTMAN's Ma
rIoNAL BUSINESS COLLEGE. We have ex-
amined his system carefully, and unhesita-
tingly pronounce it superior to any that has
yet come under our notice. His College is
emphatically an actual Business Training
House. Every step the business man takes
from entry clerk till he goes on Change
is performed by the student, and in his
different degrees of advance, he is thor
oughly impressed with the minutite that have
to be mastered by every man who would be
a successful merchant.
To facilitate this, the varieties of Dry
Goods, Cloths, Grain, Groceries, Etc, mark
ed with their true gold value, are in sample,
and regulated by its rise and fall. So eve
ry transaction shown on the students books
is performed by the actual transfer of grain
sugar, cloths, rice, cotton. scrip, money,
stocks, etc., etc. The fluctuations in the
prices of these commodities are quoted cor
rectly on the bulletin daily-indeed we may
in their sales and purchases.
There is wholesale department for mer-
chandize in bulk; retailing department; a
bank of issue, with its deposit, discount,
and exchange departments an insurance
office, where bona fde policies are issued q
post Office where they go through with the
regular routine; telegraph Office for de.
spatching messages and receiving kilograms
board of trade where grain and stocks are
bought and sold. In fact nothing about the
college is fictitious-the transactions are
real. Nor is this all. In the lectures given
to the college, the principles of business are
most thoroughly elucidated-why q man
should be economical in business-achy up.
right in all connections-aohy hurry off q
large stock or hold it--a0hy insure his goods
in short, every sOhy for every act in bust
ness life. And when the student has finish
ed his course here, he can step into the ex
change, bank, counting house or store with
an experience that some rarely have after the
plodding of five or six years, while the stu
dent has gained it in the sauna number o.
week, or months at most.
We give utterance to an honest conviction
when we say that the son Of every farmer,
mechanic, merchant or professional man
should go through such training-it mat
ters not what may be his future calling il
life, it will give him practical turn of mint
and method. We predict that the wide diffu
sion of knowledge obtained at such institu
tons, will do much to lessen the number O
the bankrupts in our land, with all their at
tendant miseries.
After an examination of Eastman's system
with all its practical bearing, we can see
why it is that such men as General Sherman
Horace Greeley, Mayor Rice, Hon. Mark
Wilbur and Geo. W. Bungay, give it suct
warm concentrations.
To make the College complete and better
fit those who have been deprived of the ad-
vantages Of earlier education, Prof. East
man has provided preparatory department
where Arithmetic, Mathematics and Pen
manship are taught. AS for Penmanship
we have never seen finer specimens-Prof
Bates fancy sketches, executed with a stee
pen, are beautiful works of art.
Professor Eastman is also fitting up de-
parlment designed for the special business
training of young ladies--which we view
with pleasure, as we deem their present
sphere of usefulness altogether too con
tracted.
We consider Mr.. Eastman public bene.
factor and heartily wish him success in hi
nterprise.-Christian Times and Witness.