Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1884-07-13
A NEW ENTERPRISE.
A Splendid Opportunity Afforded for
Commercial Education at Wood
bury's Business College.

The necessity Of a course Of study con.
fined to subjects connected with mer.
camille life is apparent to great extent
in growing community like this, where
our young men have early opportunities
to grasp the problem of business in all
its practical phases. To cope with the
rapid advancement of Los Angeles en-
terprise, it is essentially the duty of every
business man to give his son thorough
business training. Thus, he is enabled
to keep pace with the onward march of
progress, and our young metropolis will
be more substantial for having competent
and schooled merchants. 1t will be
gratifying news to our citizens to learn
that the Woodbury. Business College has
been established in this city, and is des-
tined to become the leading commercial
school Of Southern California. Mr..
+. G. Woodbury., the Principal
Is q gentleman Of extended experience
with commercial colleges and under
stands TO nicely the most minute de-
tails of mercantile transactions and the
best known methods for keeping books.
He has been proprietor of Heald's cele-
brated business college, San Francisco,
for the Last seventeen years, and in
opening college in Los Angeles he has
left nothing to be desired in providing
the advantages of thorough practical
business college unexcelled by any of
the leading commercial schools of Amer
lea. The college is located at No. 3l6
North Main street, near the Pico House.
Every appliance has been provided in
the furnishings and the desks are nicely
arranged SO as to represent certain cities.
Thus q student may lease his
store in Los Angeles, make out his lease,
and open q regular business, buying
goods from San Francisco and keep his
own books. The furniture was manu-
featured for Mr.. Woodbury. by F. A.
Geier and is elegant in appointments and
workmanship.
Already many applications have been
made for admission to the college and
every assurance is given Mr.. Woodbury.
that our citizens appreciate his efforts
to provide Los Angeles with thorough
business educational facilities. Ladies'
are admitted into all the departments Of
the college ON the same terms and condi-
tions as young men.
The Business College has become q
recognized necessity, and Is in active
sympathy with modern life. It. deals
with living interests, having little to do
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its short practical methods, it brings to
view aud places within easy reach, the
general principles and outlines Of bust
ness, so that its students soon become
qualified for active service in CONNER
cial pursuits. A full business course,
with its theory and practice combined,
forms a most thorough and practical
course Of study. 1t fits for business, it
imparis habits of energy, industry and
perseverance,; it makes young men and
women strong and confident in their own
abilities; it enables them to grasp oppor.
tuuities, and thus leads to honor, fame
and riches. 1t is just the course Of
studies for every one who would be sue
cessful in any department of life.
Pupils can enter the College ct any
uuic anu PURSUE tuotI 8tuOioS W kTduud-
ton. Mr.. F. W. Kelsey will give in
structions in penmanship. and business
men can by few lessons write elegantly
The business course will include book
keeping in all its forms, by both ngle
and double entry, comprising practical
work in banking, jobbing. importing,
commission, railroading, brokerage, etc.
arithmetic, including abbreviated forms
of commercial calculations in use by good
accountants; penmanship. with COM
plete analysis and movement exercises;
correspondence, comprising all the diff.
ferent forms, with rules for use Of CAPT
tai letters and punctuation; mercantile
law, with lectures on all the important
topics; English branches, including
spelling, grammar, composition exercises,
rhetoric. etc.; French. German and
Spanish; business forms OF every variety
actual practice in all kinds of business
lectures ON bookkeeping, penmanship,
business customs, political economy and
various other topics calculated to impair
to the pupil habits of industry. prompt
ness in business affairs and reliability
of character.