The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-21
A GRAND INSTITUTE ON.
A sketch ofthe Ottawa Business University
Its Advantages.


High above the hustle of the street
where the noise of carts and vehicles
and the hum Of the electric cars is un
able to disturb the student at hi.
work-upon the third floor of Armory
block and occupying the entire upper
portion Of this large building-is the
| Ottawa Business University.
This institution, started as Il ven
ture by Prof. +. j. Toland, one of the
best-and conceded 10y many authors
| ties to be the best-busineSs
college man in the west, opened1ea
last summer and was, for while, con
tent with mere scattering of scholars
1t has, however, grown steadily dur
| ing the intervening months, until TO-
day it is one of the largest institutions
of its kind in the weSt-by far the
largest young college in America. In
its several departments it comprises
all that is necessary or essential in a
business education, fitting one as
well for a stenographer'S desk as for a
bankers counter or a great wholesale
houses counting room. Everything
is complete and every branch has its
expert instructor.
The university is, for cOnveience,
divided into two great class rooms,
both furnished with the best furni-
ture and appliances to be had in the
country and replete in the latest and
most highly approved books.
When visited by FREE TRADER
reporter yesterday afternoon, one hun
dred and one scholars were enrolled.
The reporter cOnversed with number
who have attended the school and all
pronounced the Ottawa Business Uni
versity superior, "for," said one, I'VE
don't have to hold back and review
every time new pupil enters. We
are given pecial instruction at the
time we need it,"
During the reporters stay, Prof.
Davis put his class in arithmetic
through a difficult exercise. They
were given a number, and told to add,
divide, substract, multiply, etc, ETC.,
until one would think such work
would turn the brain, but the class
gave the correct answer in chorus.
Such rapid and accurate work would
surprise some Of our business men,
who plod up column of figures and
ponder over the result.
The reporter visited the desks Of the
classes and looked over the books kept
by nearly half hundred. All were
neatly kept, and looked as though
they had been printed. Among the
best in penmanship were Dinneen,
Vinegar, Shaver, NOonan, Bertha
Fox, Rose Dheil, Scanlan and Calls.
The prize for the best penman is an
elegant gold badge, twelve-pointed
star suspended from gold bar by two
gold chains. On the bar is the in
scription, "Best Penman," and on the
badge SO. b. u" and 1889"
The reporter then visited the steno-
graph and typewriter department,
presided over by Prof. Lowe. Here a
series of exercises in shorthand were
in progress. The class easily wrote
one hundred and thirteen words a
minute, and had no difficulty in de-
ciphering their work. Miss Agard
then wrote three hundred and ninety
five words in two minutes and twenty
five seconds from matter which she
was acquainted with, and one hun
dred and fOrty-Seven words in one
minute and twelve seconds from new
MATERIAL business letters. Prof.
Toland's former pupils now hold re-
sponsible positions in dozens of promi-
nent business houses.
The university is complete in every
detail, commercial law, including
contracts, commercial paper, bail
ments, real estate, drawing of notes,
deeds, bonds, etc, being fully entered
into. All pupils receive special in
struction, and are able to step into a
counting room or bank without
further instruction.
The presence of this splendid insti-
tuition in La Sale county is grand
thing for the young men and women
of the surrounding territory. 1t is
unsurpassed in America.
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