St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-04
NECESSARY TRAINING.
A Rare Opportunity For Our Youth to
Secure a Business Edu-
cation.

More than ten thousand farmers sons
and fully as many city lads are asking them
selves these long winter evenings beside the
paternal tiresides 'How shall best secure
home. a competence, a fortune?" These
are salient questions. He knows tnat to
succeed in business he must have special
business training: he recognizes the fact that
the DAYS of the Stewards and Claflins have
passed away. Unframed boys either from
the farm or the town no longer step into
the counting room and sway the deStlnleS
of commerce. There is competition OF
the present, trained. merciless, unsleeplng
and to enter the lists with any hope OF sue
cessful results the competitor must nave
special training. and what SO needful In
their later days as systematic training the
science of commerce? business educa-
ton is all arbitrary necessity, and no young
man need hope to conquer recognition in
the commercial world without it, And it
is necessary the young man should select
for such training an institution of eStab-
lished merit. He must be careful to guard
against the mushroom concerns conducted,
If we may be permitted to use the phrase,
by the illiterati. We recall the mushroom
growth of number of these mushroom
concerns, now happily for the most part
relocated TO almost forgotten obscurity.
There IS such thing as
THOROUGH BUSINESS TRAINING
which is capable of lifting the pupil for
the actual duties of business career. and
certain men like C.. G. Curtiss have per-
sisted in their desire to educate the youth
of the country for business. The result
has been a wedding out of the pretenders
and soIidly liking the meritoriOus institu-
tions in the respect of the community. We
were deeply impressed with these truths
during a recent visit to
THE CURTIss COMMERCIAL COLLEGE
| in Minneapolis We saw system not only
ideaIized but perfected. We saw it was
possible to insure to the youth of the North
west thorough and complete business edu-
cation. We realized that there is one in
sttuCiOn that teaches business Ill all It's
forms, whose graduates possess not merely
an artist,cally engraved diploma. but the
knowledge which that diploma guarantees.
We had the proofs in numerous testimonials
from former students now occupying posi-
tons of trust and profit in the banks. tele-
graph offices and mercantile institutions of
this state, and still more flattering cOmmenda
tons from their employers. " e saw it was no
longer necessary for the boys seeking buSl-
| Ness knowledge 10 rack his brain for light;
his fellows have prepared the way and have
already begun tn reap the reward.
In Prof. Curtiss' two commercial schools.
at Minneapolis and st. Paul, $50 students
have prepared themselves for business in
the past year alone.
WHAT DOES CURTISS TEACH?
and does he teach it thoroughly? will be
asked by every young man earnestly desiring
a proper business training. The scope of the
college is best outlined by President Curtiss,
who saws briefly: The Curtiss business
college offers positive help to young men
and boys who desire the best and cheapest
preparation for success i'll business 10 dis
satisfied young men tied to places unSuted
| to their capacities to academic graduates
| who desire practical finish to their pres
ent education. to middle-aged men out of
business or desiring to change their present
employment for something more profitable
or better suited to their tastes, to young
/ women who desire to prepare themselves
| for Sef-Support or who realize the advan-
tage of being familiar with the business
affairs of life. to young women who are en-
gagged in wearing and unremunerative
work and wish to engage in pleasanter
occupations"
The college faculty consists of President
| CurtiSs and a trained staff of professors of
both sexes, and the curriculum embraces
commercial law, penmanship and accounts
mathematics, shorthand, commercial calcu-
| latons, bookkeeping, commercial arith-
metic, practical grammar. telegraphy, type
writing. business correspondence and the
elements of banking.
A full year of hard and persistent, but
nevertheless interesting. study is required
| to go through the course understandingy.
| And right here we recognize the substantial
merit of the institution. Whatever is
taught is taught thoroughly. and diploma
from Mr. Curtiss is invariably an open
sesame to employment.