The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-08-11

Preparations have begun all over the
Great Middle West for the annual exc,
dus of young men and women'to secure
a business education. The great train
ing school at La Crosse, the Wisconsin
Business University, the fame of which
extends from the Rockies to the Allie
ganies has announced its annual open
ing on Tuesday. Sept. 9TH. In years
this school has grown from one of
merely local reputation to one of
national Importance So prominent has
it become in practical business training,
| that the mere announcement of the
opening of any of its terms causes
futter in the minds of young men and
women bent on securing a business
education that will secure them en-
/ ployment. For the past years there
never has been time that the Wiscon
sin Business Universities could not
place more graduates than it could turn
out, Notwithstanding the fact that the
ufCloSO dUCChOdAOO lOI pdSU hNC
years has been nearly 800. Unlike
other schools it holds out no induce
ments of cheap board and cheap tuition;
but offsets such promises by the fact
that over 5000 of its graduates are en-
ployed in positions paying from $40 to
5000 month. others are at the head Of
business houses of their own.
1t is the only school in the world that
has for years given one month trial free
| and 3 months additional tuition free, to
those who enter at the beginning of
any of the school terms. It's diplomas
are guarantees of employment and eff
cheney For % years its proprietor has
and in the past s years, F. J. Toland,
has become the foremost man in the
business education that fits young men
and women for practical business life
in the great Northwest. So rapidly
has the school grown that the necessity
of additional. room has forced itself
upon Toland, until he outgrew his
quarters in Lacrosse, and has estab-
lished three other schools, the Wausau
Business University, now in its second
year. the Eau Claire Business Univer-
sity to be opened on Sept. II and the
Monroe wis., Business University
opening on Sept, 9Th. All these schools
| are under the direct supervision of Mr..
I F. J. Toland and under the personal
charge of the very best teachers money
can hire. This year Mr.. Toland's
faculty will embrace 90 teachers, some
of them have been with him for Is
years and have come to be a part of
his methods and systems in practical
business training. All over the country
business men are taking an interest in
the advancement of the schools already
established, and the demands made up
on Mr.. ToIand from Iowa, Illinois and
Minnesota, will no doubt lead to the es-
Enlistment of other schools in the year
of 1900. The present outlook is that
the four Toland Business Univerties
will be crowded to their capacity for
the fall and winter terms of 1899 and
1900. Business men lend their names
to their support, those at the head of
educational departments in the public
schools, willingly stand as references
for the Toland schools and his methods.
Prof. Karl Mathie, one of the best
known educators in the state of Wis
consin and at the head of the Wausau
High School says: ''The Toland schools
are all right. The teachers of the Wau-
school are men of ability in their par
ticular branches of education From
my observation | would say that the
Toland schools are doing good work
| Edward Blumer, County Superintend-
ent of Schools at Monroe, Greene coun-
| ty. attaches his name to list of promi-
nent business men who secured for
Monroe, the Monroe Business Universe
ty and stands as one of its sponsors.
THE BEST REFERENCES EVER GIVEN.
References, Communications unsur-
passed by those of any other education
al institution in the world, are given to
the Toland universities, by the firms
who employ their graduates. Banks all
over the country, banks in Lacrosse,