The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-08-16
THE LACKAWANNA
BUSINESS COLLEGE

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parting instruction..
j. N. Sntoot, "The Typewriter Man,
has had several years experience as q
teacher and manager In business col.
! leges. Being In close touch with the
typewriter users his influence is very
advantageous to graduates who are
looking for positions.
ID. w. Wagner is graduate of
| PALMS Business College. He is an ex-
pert accountant and entirely familiar
with the latest textbooks on rapid
calculations and "Short cuts" in fig
ures. He is the President of the Book
keepers Association of Scranton.
| The faculty is composed entirely of
teachers of long experience, who
are painstakins and thorough in their
| methods of instruction. The business
department has for it's head an expert
| accountant, while the shorthand de-
partnent Is in charge of an expert
enced court stenographer and teacher
of shorthand.
Bookkeeping and Business Practice.
Bookkeeping and business practice
is taught by methods by which the
pupil learns to do by doing" He
buys and sells from the day he begins
his course. He handles all the bus-
ness papers arising in business and
not only learns the latest and most
approved methods of recording ac-
counts. but also gains an Insight into
business methods followed in different
lines of business.
Special drills in the theory of ac-
counts and accounting, office practice
and business relations by mail with
students in the Binghamton school tend
to make this one of the most interest
ing as well as thorough courses of busi-
ness training that can be had.
Methods Of Instruction.
The methods of instruction are large
ly personal. Dull students receive the
individual attention necessary to keep
them interested and progressing. The
student who is active and has had good
educational advantages is not retard-
ed in any way by the happiness of any
other student. The unit Of the school
is the student, not the class. If stu
dent is backward in one study he need
not be retarded in the rest. If on the
other hand he has special talents, his
work can be so mapped out as to Sc
cure their fullest development. In
other words, special aptitudes are cul-
tivated while special deficiencies, If
any, are not allowed to interfere with
the pupils general progress.
Banking and Office Practice.
The student. before the completion of
the course, is given the benefit of a
training which is as near a counter
part of the methods and work in real
business life as can be afforded. His
transactions represent dealings with
students in this school and with the
students and offices in the Lowell
School of Business. His work is re-
corded in a large and permanent set
of books kept in the Office and is done
largely by correspondence.
Banking.
The bank is organized as a national
bank, capitalized at 100000, and does
general banking business, receiving de-
posits. discounting and collecting busi-
ness paper of the students, issues New
York drafts, protests dishonored pa
per- etc. 1t handles large number of
active accounts and is a most valu-
able part of the students training.
Penmanship is given constant atten-
tion. Students are taught a style Of
which iskgraceful, legible
and rapid.
Arithmetic is taught from a text
book arranged expressly for those who
are fitting themselves for business |
life. This work is supplemented with |
a large amount Of rapid calcula- |
nd int, &c
addition to the work in arith-
metic as ordinarily taught 1t en-
ables the graduates to do their work |
much more rapidly and with less NEIL
tai effort than required by the clerk,
bookkeeper or business man who has
not had the advantage of such drills
Spelling is taught daily. 1t is a very
important part of business or short
hand training and the attention is CIV
Ell to it that it merits.
Commercial Law.
The young man who enters a business
life without a thorough knowledge of
the principles of law governing differ
ent business relations is much like a
ship at sea without compass and he
Is just about as likely to reach the har-
without a rudder to reach it's port on
the other side of the ocean.
The pathway of a business man is
thickly strewn with shoals and quick
sands and familiarity with the prin-
ciples of commercial law is very essen
-ial to his safety. The pupils of the
Business College study
The rules governing business reIatio
,f almost every kind, including notes,
Traits, endorsements, agencies, COR
oorations and partnerships, sale of
goods and transfer of real estate.
Business Correspondence.
The pupils in their business dealings
larry on correspondence on great
'ariety of subjects. Their work is all
by the instructors and re-
urned corrected.
The ability to write good business
etter is one to which many success
ul business man owes his first start.
Old-fashioned ideas are constantly
giving way to the new. What We're
perfectly satisfactory ways of doing
hings in the days of our fathers are
ntirely superseded or are being-I
in a way that makes it neces-
AIRY for the young man of the present
lay to be on the alert and to take ad-
'antage of every opportunity that pre-
ents itself to enable him to keep up
With the procession.
Value of Special Training.
In every commercial or manufacture
ng establishment, as we'll as in the
ifferent professions, those young men
II women succeed, meet with rapid adj