San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-15
PRACTICAL EDUCATION.
IN THE ACTUAL.
CONDUCT OF BUSINESS
The Need of the Day-Thorough
Acquaintance With the Forms
and Processes of Business
Is Now Demanded.

Technical knowledge is at a pre-
MUM. What this practical age
demands is practical knowledge;
an actual acquaintance with the
working machinery of whatever is
undertaken, on the part of him who
undertakes it. The LIGHT has
long been an advocate of such edu-
cation on the part of the state as
will fit our youth for the real bust
ness Of the farm, the shop, the mill,
the counting house, or whatever
avOcation in life is to be pursued.
The Industrial school has been it's
demand. 1t has necessarily pressed
upon the attention of the state the
need of providing for it's children
such education as will fit them
| practically to earn living, by
| hand and head, when they are
thrown upon their own resources.
| For this reason it has taken a deep
interest in the progress of those
schools technically styled "Com-
mercial;" watching their develop
ment, studying their methods,
carefully noting the adaptation of
means to end, only DESTROYS of as
certaining how much real, practical
worth there is in their work.
AS a result of it's enquiry the
LIGHT has concluded that course
Of instruction best which actually
fits the average student for the real
work of the office, or counting room,
so that he steps from his place in
the school to his post in the bust
ness circle without StrangeneSS, as
a gentleman comes to his lodgings,
ready furnished. The school that
does this work the most naturally,
thoroughly, simply and with the
least fuss and feathers is the one
that has solved the question. That
school needs only to be known to
be approved. Business houses de-
mand not only business knowledge,
but business style; that style di-
rectness, clearneSS, simplicity.
Horse sense is at a premium in
every business house in the coun-
try, and an applicant for position
whose writing is as legible as print
and as free from tlOurishes as a
barn door will take precedence of
the dude penman every day in the
wear. No one knows the value of
legible writing better than the proof
reader of daily journal, and in es-
timating the worth of Commercial
education this matter has not been
lost sight of. twas with real pleas
ure that, in its recent inspection
of the work of the students of
Temple & Hamilton's Business
College in this city, the LIGHT
noted the extreme plainness of the
penmanship; legible at sight, but
without an extra line or shade
This Business Training School is
working very close to the line OF
the practical demands of this prac-
teal age. 1t educates for bread
and does not forget the butter
The course is exhaustive. 1t in.
cludes bookkeeping in all its
branches, simple and complex
giving practice in all the forms
employed in Merchandising, Com
mission, Manufacturing, Planting
and Professional accounting. Spe-
cial attention is also paid to Joint
: Stock company and Limited Part
nership bookkeeping, so that moth
ing is wanting to fully equip the
industrious student for the most
intricate commercial transactions.
Not content with this routine in
structiOn the students are daily
drilled in their commercial "man-
ual of arms" auditing and adjust
ing complex partnership accounts ;
changing the books of commercial
houses to those of joint stock COM
I panies and reserving the process,
also changing single entry books
to books of double entry, and in
every practical way known to the
most advanced accountants ia
miliariSing themselves with the
actual work of daily business as it
is transacted in the best CONNER
mercial houses. 1t was with par
ticular interest and real profit that
a half hour was spent in the "Busi-
ness Practice Department" where
all the transactions of a business
world in miniature are conducted.
Here there are two large banks
representing two leading cities,
through which pass all the tinan-
cial exchanges of twelve live bust
ness offices. These banks have a
capital of 100000 in college cur
| rencY. The students write all