The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-29
II. Y. Academy summer school.

were held at 9:45, with a full attend
ance. Prof. Cuff being absent in Salt
Lake. Prof. G. H. Brimhall took charge.
It was formally announced that the
normal training and critic teachers
would meet on Saturday at o'clock,
without the children, to consider the
nine educational problems as laid down
by DR.. Baldwin. Other authors, old
and new, will be considered later.
Commercial college-This department.
under the direct management of Prof.
J. B. Keller. aided by Professors L. E.
Eggertsen, B. S. Hinkley and E. H.
Holt, is in a thriving condition. Two
courses are offered, one in bookkeeping
and one in photography and typewrit-
ing.
Bookkeeping-T is pivotal study,
around which cluster a number of
branches constituting a, business course.
The work is divided into three depart
ments: Theory, practice and banking.
The bookkeeping S taught on the indi-
vidual plan throughout the course;
thus each student may go as rapidly as
he can consistently with good work,
not being held back by slow members
of the class.
Banking department-The college
bank is most elegantly fitted and fur
nished from first to last Students do
their business with it as it is done else
where. In it deposits are made and
the young business men draw their
checks upon it in their daily routine of
work in the practice department.; it
collects their notes, discounts CONNER
cial paper, issues certificates of de-
posts, etc.
at iC in So
systematic, accurate and complete, be-
ing counterpartof that which takes
place every day throughout the land
Students. in addition to their practice,
receive instructions in bank organiZa-
ton. banking generally, and currency
matters.
Commercial Arithmetic-This branch
is all the name implies-arithmetic for
business men. But many come to US
that need little brushing up in this
subject, and therefore those who re-
quire it are given the opportunity to
become more familiar with elemen-
tary principles. The faculty realize
the Importance of arithmetic to the
business man, and accordingly it is
given the merit it deserves. The best
of teachers and the best of methods
are employed.
Commercial Law-While this course
is not complete, enough of it is taken
to enable the student to avoid getting
into difficulty rather than getting out
when in. Those subjects are treated
which are very important to the bust
ness man. viz: Contracts, negotiable
paper, agency, interest, etc.
Practical Grammar-Technical gram
mar was discarded by US long ago, and
only the more practical parts of Eng
lish instead. If any of the students
wish to take up a thorough study of
English grammar, any one of the many
grammar classes, going on daily in the
B. Y. academy, may be chosen free of
charge.
Business Correspondence object
of this course is to enable students to
write business letters, to say just what
ought to be said without necessary
words. and at the same time for it to
be good form and free from errors:
this is an accomplishment which few
possess. The students who take this
study soon develop a wonderful abil-
lty and facility Of letter writing
Penmanship-Two styles are taught,
business and ornamental pen
manship. A neat, legible and
rapid hand writing is demand
ed nowadays and every facility
is offered the student to enable him
to acquire it. For those who have the
taste and desire it, an excellent op-
portunity for practice and instruction
in ornamental penmanship and pen
drawing is offered
Civil Government-When we consider
that our boys of today will be voters
tomorrow, is it strange that the nature
and character Of the laws that govern
them should be understood? In this a
complete course is given and the lessons
are so mapped out that those students
who go through to the finish find them
selves possessed of knowledge which fits
them for the duties of citizenship.
Added to this course are lectures given
from time to time by eminent speakers
on civil government topics.
Domestic Science, w. e. RydaIch, B.
Pdg.-There are eighteen students TAX
ing the course in domestic science
Talmage's text book is used. During
the first part of the hour Individual ex-
animation was taken on the first part of
the book consisting of air, ventilat ion,
heating and lighting.
The Socratic method was used in re-
viewing the previous lesson.
The subject Of today's work was
water" A lecture was given and sew
eral experiments were taken. The fol-
lowing subjects will be considered dur
ing the ensuing week:
Water, it's uses and properties,
sources, water a solvent for solids and
gaSses, organic impurities in water,
simple tests for purity in water, puri-
fication of water, mineral waters, and
composition of pure water.
The Students are very enthusiastic
over their work and owing to the untir-
ing labor of both teachers and students,
pleted in five weeks.