Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-12-02
ALMA COLLEGE
COMMERCIAL SCHOOL.
Able Corps of Instructors Added
Equipment.
Prof Eugene D. Pennell has Brought
this Department of the College
Fully I'D 10 the Standard.

Perhaps no one of the six departments
of Alma College has received more
attention, or has made more rapid
strides during the past few years, than
the Alma College Commercial School
The increasing demands OF the business
world for trained young men and women
having "A knowledge OF commercial usage
and who are fitted to fill positions Of
trust aud honor. have resulted in schools
for business training all over our land
In many respects Alma College Com
mercial School has advantages over
scores of similar institutions through
out the country. Ia faculty, equipment,
courses OF instruction, and environment
Il stands ond 90 none.
No ubier set of instructors can be
found Ia any other commercial college
IA the country. Prof Eugene ID. Penueli
tho principal. is man OF VIDE expert
ence iu teaching, and OF exceptional
business ability. In the tWo years that
be has bad charge OF the school he has
done more for this department than any
other man in ii history of the institu-
uou Besides he rs assisted n the doc
partments of arithmetic, English and
clvIcs, by the same professors VINO nave
these subjects in the college department.
In the way Of equipment there are
constantly being added such mater al
and apparatus as the increasing attend
anCe demands -Four new ty pewriters
have been put IN this year, making a
total Of eight machines now IN use.
There has also been added TO each OF the
desks III the business room, book aud
paper case, which affords a handler
place for the students books and writing
material than "a drawer.
Two courses are offered in the school,
VIZ, Business Shorthand and Typewrlt-
ing These courses are open 20 anyone
having knowledge OF English branches
" hetr er grammer school, high school
or college graduate The aim is 90 fit
young people for manly aud womanly
success in the business world. The
school prepares its pupils In one year 20
enter business life with specific train
ing for positions as book keepers, stenog-
rapheTs, etc, and at the same time
affords an education broad enough for
those who are TO enter at once upon the
duties OF responsible positions with large
firms or corporations The courses
embody all the ordinary commercial
branches and IN ADDITION give a broad
conception of the principles underlying
modern business methods, Discipline
and culture are combined with business
technique, 80 that In the subject taught
the student receives as broad an educa-
ton a. possible. In mathematics special
emphasis Is given TO commercial arth-
metio, bookkeeping in all its varied
applications and the science OF accounts
III sociology, commercial law, political
economy and civics; IN English special
attention Il given TO the mother-tOngue.
commercial spelling. and business cor
respondence and the whole is supple
mented by such useful omplishments
as shorthand. typewriting, and penman-
ship.
Added to all these advantages is the
fact that the school is situated in a col
lege center. and is department OF the
college itself The commercial student
enjoys the same privileges as the stu
dent in the collegiate department. He
has the use OF the gymnasium and the
athletic field, library Of twenty thous-
and volumes, literary advantages. and
has every opportunity to Develop his
powers and become fitted for the respon-
sibilities OF life.