Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-09-07

Toland's Great Business School.
Eau Claire Daily Leader.
A few years ago, young people who
desired business education or a
knowledge of shorthand, we're obliged
to go to Chicago, or some eastern city
to obtain it, and then at an expense
that only those OF ample means could
afford.
1t is true that there were plenty of
so-called business colleges" in Wis
consin, but their absolute failure to
prepare their students even the most
ordinary clerical positions, made them
and their graduates the laughing stock
of business men, and they were patron
lied only by ignorant boys and girls
who had no conception Of the actual
requirements of business. and who be-
lieved that the theoretical nonsense,
impaired by Professor" who could
not keep set of books was all that
was required.
That condition of affairs no longer
exists. In the Toland Business Uni
versities, young people are prepared
for the most exacting stenographic
and accounting positions, and nine
tenths of them are located in desira-
BILE positions. Mr.. Toland has revo-
lutionized business training in the
Northwest, and Wisconsin can now
boast ,of.schools Of business training
equalled by but few foreign schools
and surpassed by none, and, instead OF
annually sending hundreds of our
young people to distant business
schools, we now educate them at home
and in addition, receive patronage
from nearly every state in the union.
Mr.. Toland's success In elevating
business education and organizing
chain of high grade schools has been
phenomenal. Starting eight years ago
with five teachers and but six stu
dents, he has by indomitable energy
and rare business ability, without
asking financial aid of any kind, built
up the largest business of Its kind
owned by any one man in the world,
has give his school national reputa-
tion and prepared hundreds Of young
people for the duties of business life.
Last year thirty persons were on his
pay roll, more than than nthousand
dollars was expended for newspaper
advertising and more than one thous-
and students, representing twenty five
different states, were enrolled.
i In addition to his schools in Eau
i Claire, La Crosse, Wausau, and Mon
roe he owns similar schools at Winona
and Fairmont, Mimi, and next season
will open two schools in Iowa.
I When questioned as to the cause
which led to his unprecedented sue
cess Mr.. Toland replied: ''My success
lis due to no one cause alone, but to a
combination which will, in my opin-
4 ion, secure success in any Civilized
community. In the first place I determ-
| ined that my schools should bear no
resemblance to what is by courtesy
called business college. I therefore
refused to employ plug-hatted, long
haired. long coatrtailed professors, and
lengaged experienced business men,
who from office and counting house
experience knew just what business
men required of their employees, and
instead of the theoretical textbook
nonsense, and school boy problems,
| my students were thoroughly drilled
in every day duties of business life and
INSTRUCTED in methods that had stood
| the test and met the approval of sue.
cessfal business men. AS result my
lstudents were prepared for the most
Iliff1cult positions, business men en-
ployed and commended them, and that
all might learn the difference between
my schools and those OF my imitators
| invited students to attend any of
my schools, one month on trial free,
and withdraw if dissatisfied. These
inducements appealed to intelligent
people, and that is the only kind de-
sire. Young people who are looking
for "cheap tuition" and board at less
than it cost to board the paupers in
their own own county ale not desira-
BILE students, as is shown by the fact
that although thousands are every
year inveigled into attending such
schools, not one in ten ever secures a
position, unless as teacher Of coun-
try school, that employs only the
cheapest"
| To those desiring an education that
will enable them to secure first class
class positions we cordially commend
the Toland Universities, feeling that
they cannot make a better investment
of time and money. The combined
catalogue of Mr.. Toland's schools,
which is work of art, hadsomely en-
bossed and profusely illustrated, can
be secured by addressing him at La
\ Crosse, Wis, stating which of his
schools you desire to attend.
Only a Few of the Kind.
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