Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
DUNSMORE

DUNSMOKE
COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS COLLEGE,
The only Business College in the United
States having Legislative Power
to Confer Degree.
THIS INSTITUTION was founded February
22nd, 1872, at Sinks Grove, West Virgin
ia, by its President, Prof ]. G. Dunsmore
who graduated at the Eastman National
Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Dec.
IS, 1871. and it was known as the West
Virginia Commercial Institute.
Having taught literary school for six
years prior to entering the Eastman Col
lege, afterwards teaching a combined dit
erary and busness) course for ten years,
and thus becoming thoroughly acquainted
with the wants and necessities of a south
ern people, he organized and founded the
Dunsmore Commercial and Business Col
lege in the city of Stanton.
The success which has attended his eff
forts are shown in the many counting
| rooms of Staunton and other cities where
his graduates have taken places.
1t is admitted by all that he is the right
man in the right place, and that he made
a wise choice of profession when he deter
mined to carry out the idea of organizing
business school for the education of the
great mass of southern boys.
The Dunsmore Commercial and Bust
ness College was incorporated by an Act
of the Legislature of Virginia in 1884,
which was approved by the Governor,
Nov. 2oth, of the same year.
This is solely and purely Business Col
lege, as its name purports; as distinct in
its design and purpose as law college or
medical school. 1t is the aim to fit young
men and women for Business in the differ
ent walks of enterprise and commerce, and
assist them to get employment as occasion
may require. No institution can do more
than this. 1t is complete in itself.
To educate a person for business in that
thorough and practical manner necessary,
requires every facility, in building arrange
men and professorships, that the most ex-
tensive school can possess.
The teachers of this college make Book
keeping, Banking, Commercial Law, Com
mercial Paper, Commercial Arithmetic,
Penmanship; Letter Writing, &C., special
ties, and have every facility for imparting
thorough, practical business knowledge,
not only by means of text books, but, also,
by actual practice.
Parents and Guardians who anticipate
sending their sons and wards away from
home to an institution of learning, should
tol Ia Ir,fo Hof
the helthfulness and constitutional benefits
of the climate where the school is situated
as well as the moral and mental training
of the school, 'for spirit without body
is frightful spectre, body without
spirit is corpse" The body frequently
has as much influence as the mind in de-
termining ones conduct and destiny, and
he who wishes to be master of his actions
must pay due attention to the regulation
of BOTH
The climate, discipline and customs of
the pupils home should be carefully COM
pared with that of the school, and thus
avoid extreme changes.
No better or more noted climate for
pure air and water is to be found on earth
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This is proven by the thousands of in
valldS and pleasure seekers who flock here
yearly from every quarter of the continent,
to breathe the atmosphere of our noun
tains and quench their thirst at the foun-
tains of our life-giving streams.
Staunton is situated near the middle of
an elevated, plateaulike, limestone val
ley, here, some twenty-five miles wide, and
sloping not far from twenty-five feet to the
mile, (rapidly enough to secure the best
dralnage), to the northeast and southwest
between continuous mountain chains, the
Blue Ridge on the southeast and the Kita-
tinny or North mountains on the north
west. The general surface of the country
at the city and around it is rolling plain,
varied by stream valleys, rounded hills,
and low ridges; but everywhere open, and
commanding wide stretches of charming,
picturesque valley-landscapes bounded by
distant mountain-chains, bold in relief and
beautiful in outline and color. Many of
the residences of Staunton overlook these
pleasant features, and some of them COM
mand fifty miles or more of the length of
this wide valley and its bordering noun
tainS.
The climate of Staunton and its vicinity
is most agreeable and healthful, and adj
mlrably adapted to work of every kind,
being equally remote from the extremes of
heat and cold that characterize places in
the northern and southern portions of the
Union.
Statistics prove the climate to be exceed
ingly healthful.
Staunton has for many years been
health resort for persons living in the larg-
er cities and in malarial districts.
Staunton is accessible by rail from all
directions, and has Geographic communi-
cation with all parts of the country.
Being the seat of Dunsmore' Business
College makes it very convenient for par
ents having both sons and daughters to ed
ucate in branches that will be valuable to
them In the affairs of business life. and
without which, they are mere drones in the
busy hives of commercial life.
The principal of this college, Professor
}. U. Dunsmore, is devoted to his profess
sion, and his int crest in the advancement !,
OF his pupils is absorbing, and he has all