The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-15

College are elegant and con.podious, and that
they have been fitted up in the finest style.
The following is the programme of the exercises
Overture Orchestra
Opening Address. L. Fair6snks
Sleeping Sentinel. el...................W.W W. Marshall
me Nagaponds' iaxdndes Ia
Ballad 'J' w. AeAa19er
Bernardo del Carpio o..................W.B Buchanan
Woman's Sphere. ........ .............. ~ M Nicoi
Gros-Seilers Dream. s. Mitchell
Dying Patriots Request r; Dudley
oath|Buchansn Reed .............. II. W. Nadal
Old Gregory. ..........,.... ..'.........F G. rum
Mr. L. Fairbanks, Aresident of the College, de-
lvered the opening address, ofwhich give the fol-
lowing report. Being introduced, he spoke substan-
TALLY as follows:-
Ladies and Gentlemen: 1t devolves upon me, by
choice of the Committee OF Arrangements, to make
few remarks Introductory the exercises of this
casion. Thanking them for the honor, must apollo
eize for want of preparation for elaborate speech
My time has been SO fully'occupied that have not
had opportunity to prepare as could wish
l welcome you TO our new rooms, and rejoice with
you that they nearly ready for our accommoda-
tion. congratulate you that the institution is per-
manently located, with such commOdious and COM
Portable apartments, and believe all will unite with
me in saying that the change is for the better.
Our accommodations at Tenth and Chestnut streets
were not all that we could desire, and the removal
became necessity from the fact that lease of the
premises could be Obtained except from year year,
while the annually increased, with prospect
of ever reaching maximum. When the exactions of
landlords become exorbitant, and consumed all the
profits Of business, the only way is to leave them to
other victims
Coming further down town, we secure more CEN
tral locality We are in the centre of business,
in the immediate vicinity Of the Custom House. Post
Office Independence Hall, the Mercantile Library,
and other frequented places. Our rooms are well
situated compact and convenient and have spared
no expense to make them comfortable and attractive
With the opening of these rooms we contem-
plate various improvements, and new regulations in
the management of the College, which, trust, will
not only secure continuance of its present liberal
patronage but permanent Increase
Our course of instruction has been constantly i'm
proved during three years and upwards, since the
establishment of the institution, and is now upon
basis which, we believe, cannot fail to give satisfac-
ton. We have endeavored 70 make it thorough, COM
prehensiye and practical In the general manage
ment of the institution we have sought to maintain
for it character worthy of its name and rank as
regularly incorporated College. We have endeayored
to avoid all humbuggery and unfounded pretenses,
which too often degrade the character of commercial
schools We resort to no discredltabe means 10 Sc
cure patronage, make no false pledges.
The consequence is, that have always had the
very best class of students Ily experience in the
management of commercial schools dates back more
than twenty years-to period when there was not
Commercial College, so-called, In the United States
am familiar with the character and standing OF
such schools generally, and am proud to say that
have never known better Glars of students anywhere
than we have here. l am proud, too to know thal
our graduates and students, now numbering over Two
thousand, are many of them, holding lucrative
positions in prominent houses IN TINS CITY ana e'se-
where or are engaged in successlui business lor
| themselves.
This is gratifying to us, it must be to them and
tnst that in the future they win be counted among
onr most enterprsing and wealthy merchants, fnan-
ciers and business men, Whatever may be my future,
bor rejoice i'm their success, and feel honored If my
hIle efforts in their behalf shall berecognized
ho,,;n1, IN any degree contributed to their success
do not oyer-estimate the value OF what Is termed
] ,o,siness education" And yet cannot condescend
.. enc cbarlatanry of pretending that young man can
,ooy,, everything in three months time. have too
lted an idea of education, in its broadest sense to
| attempt to practice any such imposition But do
/ so, that Commercial College, managed as it ought
10 he Is necessity of the times. Ibelieve that every
| nan no matter what his occupation is to be- can
roatably spend few months in institution of this
1 kind.
Other public and private schools fail to teach pro-
4 perlv or thoroughly the branches which are here
| made speciality AS to getting the knowledge
In the counting house by actual experience, that is
out Of the question, except it be obtained by long
and tedious apprenticeship. None but the most g-
norant viii now pretend that young man must begin
in business and pick up the necessary knowledge OF
accounts and the collateral branches as best he may
| when in few weeks he can acquire at commercial
school more valuable information than he would thus
ordinarily obtain IN AZ many years, There must be