The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-01-31

| usages and forces of commercial paper:''
and this theoretical department finished.
next comes the junior department of actu.
al business. The student now receives his
official desk, he pers0nates firm. is pro-
ylded with cash capital and credit. opens a
set OF books corresponding to the business
IN which he is engaged, opens his account
with the bank, and becomes a full fledged
business man. His work now underg0es
the most careful scrutiny he is more full.
~ initiated into reasons of why's and
wherefore. y
Next comes the senior department of
actual business, and descriptive of this we
can do no better than to quote from the
College catalogue:
The students mind and energies are
mere fully developed and tested in field of
laDor calling forth the highest order of ex
ecutive skill. from the Simplest forms Of
Co-partnership. as Dry Goods and Com
mission merchant, TO the more advanced
exercise of Insurance. Merchandise and
Adventure companies, Custom House Du-
ties, dd tdloren, ahd specific, together with
the thousand and one details essential to
each. From this he becomes, in regular
turn, Freight, Insurance and Real Estate
Agent or Broker, and Banker
lie becomes acquainted with changing
books from Single to Double Entry. and
vsce rersd, also with Stock and Partnership
Books, and every style and form of Book
keeping practiced in well regulated BUSH
ness Houses
In these actual business departments
every method is part of a complete sys-
tenn, and calls for unremitting attention.
NO catch penny devices are resorted to
70 amuse the seholars-their work inter-
fhPm yNoo -
desk and noticed how earnest was each
pupil how, from the youngest to the old
est, they appeared to appreciate the fact
That they were taking a step that would
influence their future lives, we felt that
Prof. Dunsmore was doing something
more than instructing these youths in the
science OF accounts he was making last
ing impressions upon plastic minds, incul-
eating order, system. law las ruling guides.
we were especially gratifed. too, at the
marked advance made by pupils. We
glanced at the books of dozen, selected
lndlscrlminately. Not only did the pen
manship in each case show wonderful inn
provement from week to week, but what
was more to the purpose, it was evident
that the embryo bookkeepers under
stood What they were doing instead of SIM
ply copying forms.
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business transactions going on about us.
Upon blackboard had been marked the
suppositious price Of gold for the day, and
all purchases and sales were made upon
that basis. Each student has his account
with the College Bank the money is
sued is handsomely Autographed, and
ranges in amount from $1,000 bills down
to fractional currency, the lowest denomi-
nation being one cent. As we looked
about us, here were future merchants buy
ing and selling textile fabrics, oils. and, in
fact, almost all kinds of merchandise !;
handling and delivering the articles them
selves instead of "base imitations.' For in
stance, a vial of kerosine would represent
so many hundred or thousand barrels a
sample OF cloth represented bolt of the
same, and SO on. At. another desk insur-
| ance papers were being drawn up; other stu
dents were making out articles of par :
nership, others were settling up railway
accounts,-in brief it was miniature bus
mess world, with its worries, its losses and
its gains. This GctualSty is the prime Sc
cret Of the success Prof. Dunsmore's
College is meeting with. The professor
| also talks familiarly to the students, ex-
plains veXed questions. gives practical lee
ts.res upon Commercial Law. &C.. and
thus tries to make the path as plain as can
be. though he insists that his pupils must
| think for themselves as well.
The practical results, flowing from the
maintenance of the school are appreciate.
One Of these results is the fact that, so far
as Prof. Dunsmore is aware, every gradu-
| ate OF the College is now in lucrative en-
ployment. He doesn't guarantee employ
ment-as an honest man he could not-but
he does use every exertion to secure it and
his personal influence, backed by diploma
from the College, deservedly has weight
with business men. He has secured as an
assistant. Prof. B. F. Humphreys, also a
graduate of Eastman's, and these two gen
tlemen unite in furthering the welfare of
each and every pupil.
But we have already overstepped our
space. In conclusion we may add that the
College deserves the hearty support, NOR
al and material, of all in the community.
It is accomplishing incalculable good.
Other and fuller information will. we doubt
not, be cheerfully sent to any address by
Prof. Dunsmore upon application.