Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-24
GOLDEY COLLEGE,
a Bright Outlook for the Next School Year,
Winch Commences on Septem Der 4th.

winch Commences on September 4th.
The indications arc that Goldey
College will again be filed, and that
the attendance at the opening. Mon
day. September 4th, will BIO unusually
large Already seats have been re-
served for a considerable number Of
students from Wilmington and various
parts of Delaware, as well as from
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland
and Virginia. One student has en-
rolled from Iowa, and the college is
in correspondence with prospective
students in the South. For years
Goldey College has not been local
institution, and is now drawing its
patronage from many distant points.
The young people of Wilmington APP
preciate the advantages of having such
an excellent commercial college at their
doors, and the coming year large
number of students from this city will
be in attendance. A number OF the
graduates of the high and grammar
schools have enrolled already.
The commercial course given by the
college consists of general training
for business, and comprises such
branches as business mathematics,
bookkeeping, penInanship, commercial
law, correspondence. and business
practice. In the last part of this
course, the student is engaged in fac
simile business practice, and does an
extensive business through the United
States mails with students working in
other commercial colleges hundreds of
miles away.
Henry Q. Conrad, city solicitor, is
teacher of commercial law in the de-
partment, and tho students hear fire.
quent lectures on business ethics by
DIR. W. L. S. Murray, dean Of the
college. Prof. William A. Reynolds is
lecturer on practical accounting. The
teacher of penmanship, who was
brought here from California, has a
national reputation as one OF the best
penman, and the students are we'll
trained in the much neglected subject
of penmanshir. The teacher of mathe-
matics has had many years. experience
as a successful instructor, and was
formerly associated with one of the
best colleges in the west. The new
teacher in the commercial department
is W. e. Douglas. who is well and
favorably known in this city. Mr..
Douglas was formerly public school
teacher in Delaware and South Dakota,
and has had valuable experience in
business and as practical bookkeeper.
The shorthand and typewriting de
partment is this year attracting un-
usual attention, as Mr.. Goldey has
secured an expert to take charge of
the department The latest methods
in shorthand and typewriting have
been introduced, and MIR. Goldey is
looking forward with very great deal
of interest to the reopening of this de-
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cipal of the department is j. E. Fuller,
who has been for several years associate
editor of the Photographic World, of
Now York City, the largest shorthand
magazine published. He is one OF the
leaders in the shorthand profession,
and will introduce a new method of
typewriting that will create quite q
stir hero among the stenogra pliers. He
will train his students to typewrite
without their looking at the keyboard
of the typewriter. This is known as
the touch" method of typewriting. is
easily learned by his methods, and
enables the operator to do great deal
more work, and with much greater
ease, than by the old method of look
ing at the keyboard while writing. 1t
is quite easy for a skilfu pianist to
play the piano in the dark, and there
does not appear to be any reason Why
typewriter should not be operated in
like manner. 1t is asserted that Mr..
Fuller says the method is very simple
ono. and that in few years it will be
the universal way of operating type
writer among those who are good
stenographers.
The new catalogue is one of the
finest ever published by Mr.. Goldey,
and may be obtained free at the college
office. corner Eighth and Market
streets, or by writing to him for it.
The college has passed through ID sue
cessful years. and has enrolled about
$500 students. Last year, the attend
ance was 1853. The reopening will be
looked forward to with interest.