The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-10-05
BUSINESS COLLEGES.

most prominent business educator of the age MT. Bryant was the senior member of the world re- nowned firm of Bryant & Stratton, and the founder of the famous chain of Bryant x Stratton Business Colleges located in forty weight of the principal cities of the United States and Canada, and ex- tending from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, and from the great lakes on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the south. Mir Bryant has been actively engaged in the work Of business education for thirty seven years and the great impetus he has given to the cause of commercial training has raised the standard of business equipment to very high level and invested the department of practi- cal education with dignity and character that com mand the admiration and respect of the foremost citizens of the land. He has established a course of business training that will permanently pro- vide business firms and corporations throughout the nation with every variety of commercial assis tants they require, including book keepers, cash iers, stenographers, typewriters entry clerks, bill clerks and many other grades of help. His services in this direction have been SO great and SO far reaching as to confer material benefit upon every branch of commerce and of trade, and he has there fore won for himself the sincere and lasting grati tude of the entire business world while thousands upon thousands of the successful men and women of to-day look back to the early training received under his supervision as the stepping stone which enabled them to first secure footing in the busi- ness community and as the potent influence which afterward carried them upward and onward through the various stages of their progress until they st last definitely established in their of Es He Bryant is therefore one that will be held in con- stant and grateful remembrance in the hearts of American citizens as long as the business commun- ity exists, and as long young men and young women continue to prepare themselves for the pressing requirements of active business life For many years MT. Bryant was associated in CO., part nership with MT. H. ID. Stratton, without whose able and efficient cooperation it would have been impossible to have extended the scope of his opera tions to such grand proportions The constant care and chf hfVlln of hnfh to systematically and successfully conduct 30 vast enterprise, and therefore upon the death of MT. Stratton it thought best retire the interests of the firm by transferring to the resident princi- pal in each city, except Chicago, the school of which he personally in charge as principal and local partner. The Bryant < Strstton interest thus transferred to new hands in every other city, the college in Chicago being the only one which Mr. Bryant thought best to retain for him. self. The Bryant & Stratton Chicago Business Col lege is therefore the only college with which Mr. Il. k. Bryant has at present any personal connec- tion, and as he has concentrated upon this in- sttution his pre-eminent ability and great experi- ence as 8 business educator, and has devoted to this single establishment the entire time and atten tion formerly distributed among forty eight differ ent schools he has built it up solidly substantially and grandly and made of 1t the Great Business Uni versity of America. On the preceding pages we have given illustrations of two of the sixteen large and spacious apartments occupied by the college for its superb courses of practical training in the business departments, in shorthand and typewrit- ing and in the English branches. An elegant new catalogue is nearly ready for distribution contain ing one hundred and twelve large pages, with a wealth of valuable information, and embracing great variety of artistic designs and elegant full page engravings while the beautiful paper Is made by special order for the purpose of securing an usually superior quality. Everything that art and culture suggest has been incorporated into this exquisite volume, and we would cordially urge the young men and young women of the country to avail themselves of the unparalleled advantages afforded by this great institution in its matchless of business short hand and English train ing together with its extraordinary facilities for placing young people in pleasant and remunerative positions when graduated
 A BUSINESS EDUCATION.