Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-08-12
CRAFTSBURY ACADEMY.

Progress Is marked feature OF
Orleans County schools this year.
! 1t is seen in the large attendance at
! the summer school, and in the nota
bic advance made by Craftsbury
Academy. That we'll known institu
ton has added commercial depart
ment. The quality of work required
at Craftsbury is in itself a guarantee
that this new department will not be
one in name only, as is sometimes the
case in institutions caring more for
show than truth. But it may be of
interest to learn that a thoroughly
equipped teacher Of business branches
has been secured, whose time will be
devoted exclusively to the CONNER
cial department, bookkeeping, stem
ography, typewriting, commercial
law, business correspond 9nce, etc,
will be taught according to the latest
and most approved methods The
commercial teacher will also give in
struction in penmanshtp to all the
academy students 1t will thus be
possible for young men and women
in this section TO acquire thorough
training for business without the
heavy expense usually entailed by So
called business colleges.
Through the aid of large firm To-
Gated in New York, but with branches
in the leading cities, the academy
authorities hope to be able to furnish
situations to proficient students with
out expense. It is needless to add
that the regular courses, Classical,
Latin English, aud English will Ee
kept up to their wonted high stand
ard The new business course is tech
nicaI and intended TO be an addition
to the regular courses, not a substi
tute for them The teachers course
will be given as usual, the academy
being on the list of approved schools.
A slight change in the law requires
the examination questions to originate
with the state board, but the princi-
pal will conduct the examination
which no worthy student need fear.
To be in line with the advance in
the teaching force, the trustees have
thoroughly renovated the academy
building, making the interior exceed
ingly attractive, and the dormitory is
undergoing extensive repairs. The
teaching appliances will be increased,
while the library, now numbering
$500 volumes, has lately been pre-
scented with the entire library of the
late Mary Scott of Craftsbury. Few
schools in Northern Vermont are so
we'll equipped for doing the best work
as Craftsbury Academy. It's situation,
without the evil influences of larger
places, in the midst of a community
distinguished for intelligence and
morality, the warm hearted manner
in which the people welcome to their
social life the pupils, new and old, the
personal Interest which the teachers
take in every student, the compare
tive inexpense, all combine to make
Craftsbury Academy an ideal place
for study and for the real end of study,
the development Of character. All
friends of the Academy will be glad to
learn that the State Laboratory of
Hygiene has pronounced the reservoir |
water and that of several wells whole
some, SO that with ordinary caution
no student need fear i'll health from |
drinking the water. Taking every
thing into consideration Craftsbury
Academy is one of the best institutions
in this section in which to prepare for i
business, teaching, or to obt ain gen. !
eral education. [!