The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-08-10
THE NEW EDUCATION.

Observation and experience are constantly developing the fact that as the volume or business of people becomes larger and more expanded, just to that extent do necessities arise for the introduction of better and safer methods for it's management and care. And this IS not only true of individual departments of business, but Is pllcable to business gen orally. It, therefore, becomes no less a duty in the study and consideration of business abstractly that corresponding regard he had of the methods for facilitating and properly understanding every detail Tn the advance ment, and Tn order to thoroughly train and il { those whose duty it IS to be at all times quainted with the status of the different de
 partments of business of which they may have charge, new branch of education, so to speak, has sprung upin less than the last thirty years. This IS the establIs hment ot schools and colleges for the thorough an9 careful education of persons accountants in all branches of commercial business. Prior to the last thirty years, and even within a much later period, the amount of Informatlo obtained by very large part of the account ants throughout our country was acquired in 8 very irregular and unsatisfactory manner In fact, so great was want of system in the art Of oek-keeplng that lt not unfreq occurred that persons protesting te be pro hcients were unable to readily comprehend the metho1s practiced bv others claiming to be equally well skilled. For these and other causes, IL therefore became necessity thai some more uniform and better system be in. tr0duced; and hence the establishment Of what arc known as the commercial colleges
 The fir rst,or among the first, of this class of col leges to establish themselves m our country are now hat are known as the Bryant & SIrat
 ton Business Colleges. These were nothing moro nor less than a number of com erciaI schools, all to be operated upon the same sys
 tenn, and one to be esta blished in each of the larger cities of our country as business might demand. The idea of this chain of commercial colleges, and all cooperating, had it's origin with the Messrs. Bryant & SLratton, and their nrst college was opened Tn Cleveland, O., in 1853. Subsequently, others were established in Louisville, Ky, New York, Brooklyn, Phil
 adelphiA. Boston. Baltimore, Washington, St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit Roches
 ter, Buffalo, Trenton, San Francisco Curling land, Peoria, Davenport. Newark, and Albany, N. '. And at the same time that these insti
 tutlons were being established through the United States others of the same kind opened in some of the prominent cities of Canada. At the various points in this great chain of com. mercial institutions, the very best fitted men were obtained and put in charge as managers; {; and thus while cooperating under the general management of the original founders of the system, uniformity of course of study was observed, and each college was in the hands or competent manager. whose object and aim 1t was to make his rank highest in the "chatn" as we'll as for reputation and honor of his individual institution as for other ad. vantsses arising therefrom. The business see and appreciate the great advantages of this plan of commercial education, and under the sktllful management of competent in- appreciative public, these different bfanches. wherever established, have taken the first position as educational institutions of their kind. In course of time. however, by reason of diversity of interests at the various cen. ters of trade where these different branches had been established, it was deemed best to abandon the cooperative plan under which nfteen years. It therefore happened in Is07 thAks upon the death of Mr. Stratton. one of tne original projectors of tho college, eee1 lnselsuf1on psc&ms . sepexAse and dis-