Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-02-26

CHICAGO.
TIE GREAT BUSINESS UNIVERSITY
OF The NATION,
EASTMAN
NATIONAL BUSINESS COLLEGE.
ITS MAGNITUDE AxB IMPORTANCE.
THE LIEUTENANT GENERAL OF
COMMERCIAL COLLEGES.
HIS NEW AND SPLENDID SYSTEM
OF PRACTICAL TRAINING.
OUR INTERESTING VISIT TO THE
INSTITUTION.

Recently while on flying visit to Chica
70 We had occasion to visit the National
Business Coll &c inaugura.ed in that city
under the auspices Of the c. lebrated II. G.
Eastman, LII. d.. who is conceded the
Lieutenant General commanding in thi.
,rt,cular branch Of education. The Ins,i
tuition hc has built up at Poughkeepsie,
New York, is without q rival in the world.
and We hazard nothing in the prediction
that the Chicago College is destined to share
its we'll earned laursls. Prof. Z. ? Ia l.
man, long identified with tie Poughkeepsie
Institution, has assumed the Presidency an !
active management Of the Western College
From the day Of its Inauguration the Inst
tuition has been thronged with the young
men of the West, and already Thirteen
Hundred Students arc in attendance Mr..
ia. tman is ably and efficiently seconded BY
D. X. Allen, Secretary, gentleman who
impressed US as model business man. His
intercourse with the students furnishes 4
practical illustration Of the graces ant
amenities which give character and tone to
commercial life. The merchants or the
present day are too much disposed tc ignore
tho polish and politencss Of the true gentle
man in business relations. We recognize
in Esstman's system. and the superior cu
ture OF his Professors, an inst, ume n.ali,y
for reform in this direction. The college nt
Chicago occupies sirteen spacious halls in
four commodious building
Hall, Irwin Club Hall. Nixon's New Ex
change Hall and Hcs Block. The Faculty
consists Of twenty-seven Professors OF ripe
experience and the highest order Of talent
rhe Eastmans were determined to n.ake the
Chicago College boy ond all comparisons the
best in the West, and 10 this end secured
The highest order Of talent the profession
,ffords. The sp.endid success alreadr de-
monstratcd is due to this fact as well as the
practical and thorough system of CONNER
cial education adopted. It Is e,npha,callv
an actual busiaess college. The whole rou-
tine Of business, from the humblest duty Of
the Office boy to the complicated relati az
Of banking and exchange, are impressed ur-
0, the mini of the student b. actuas traas
actions. A variety Of dry goods, groceries,
etc., ETC., are kept in sample lots and mark :
ed with selling price ana cost. These are
sold and billed daily with as much care as
IN actual business, and the minds Of the
students are thus iamliarized with ak tie
minuta Of trade and traffic Even the luc-
tuation in prices is carefully noted, and on
imported goods the selling price is altered
daily to correspond with the fllctations OF
he gold market. Freights and exchat &c
are duly considered and carefully estimated
There is wholesale department for the
. ale Of goods in bulk, a retaiIIng department,
and regular bank Of issue, with hand
.omely engraved notes Of the Eastman
National College bank" where each student
opens his account, checks for his deposits and
buys his exchange. Forms OF notes and reg,
lar days Of discount form an interesting and
instructive feature OF the bank department.
There is also an insurance Office, where
bona .Jitle policies are issued, spe,ill r SKIS
taken. and all the details Of insurance care.
fully taught, There is post office in ful!
operation. Letters are written, mailed and
answered as carefully as though thousands
Of dollars depenje upon the transaction. A
telegraph office aud regular board Of trade
complete the valuable aus illiarics Of this
model institution. In addition to this prac-
tical routine, full course of lectures is Civ
en-. embracing an exhaustive digest OF the
principles Of commercial intercourse and
practical business. We recognize in East
mans National Business College at Chica
60 . genuine benefaction. 1t is our hone st
conviction that the wide dissemination o'
the correct business principles which II
teaches, the practical method it incu!catee
and the experience which it secures TO the
student would invest business with more
character, more pleasure, and save from
bankruptcy and ruin thousands who annu
ally 90 to the wall for the want Of the very
training which Eastman's system supplies
Old merchants already concede . great re-
form in the general methtd Of business.
There are fewer failures and . much large'
per centage Of signal success. Much Of thu
IS directly attributable to the thoi ough and
complete system Of commercial education
in which the Eas.mans At Poughkeept'e ant
Chicsgo may justly claim proud pre'em'-
nence.
Thousands Of young men, the very how
er Of our youth, have returned from TN
army and are ready to enter upon the &C
tive duties Of civil life. Service in the ne'd
and t he rigor Of military rule, has only tn
better fitted them for the work. A certa''
amount Of rigid dis. ipline is said to dev.i
op the highest attributes Of manhood. In
systematic training Of the camp and hei'
has developed in our veter,n soldiers
symmetry Of character and that sufiicienc!
Of self reliance, which, on the Wabash, -
call ballast. They have all the element
Of first class business men, and with sac'
. course Of training - the Eastern Nation
al Business College provides In its va
range Of transactions, and the ad'nifaol
combination Of the Oest theories. with &C
tual practice, will secure to society ana
commerce al the Advantage Of % improv
cdsystem and the highest coitots.
70 whatever sphess o. liie the tostes
inclinat'Uns cf youmg men wsy be e'fscse'
. business educs tion Is Of the highest 'm
portance, and II called upon in the inter- !,
Of een Or Lruther 70 ehonse eetweea 2 q
ploma from Yale College with il hisle.
honorr, and Z dibl6pS tfOn Eastaaen bus
ness Csliets' WitN III pt3ctjdAi edsca.io'
VO shUuld not hooiaoHo = ootoet H. lestel