Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-04-23
GOOD RESULTS
That Is What Is Being Obtained IN
the Commercial Department of
Our High School.

i hAAC bCBdi tilClt Ol
Our High School.
| A few facts regarding the value of the
commercial course of our high school,
in preparing students to successfully
grapple with the problems of business
career, were lately brought To the at
tention of the PILOT and caused lis to
investigate We have found that too
much cannot be said of that institutions
commercial department and its efli-
cient teachers. That is it, in anutshell
Since this department was established,
a great many students have been grad
nated from it and each has given a good
account of himself, and some have
worked TO high positions The aim
has been not TO attempt To see how
many could be crowded into this de-
partment or how rapidly students could
be fitted for positions. but how we'll
Wherever students have secured
positions they have reflected credit
upon the school 1t has been found
that they can be taught the ms and outs
of business and office matters more
easily than the ordinary student fresh
from n commercial school. Parents
who spend good, hard money to send
their children to business colleges can
profit by investigating the results
obtained from the commercial depart
ment of our school. A great many
business firms prefer the graduate of
this department of the Wausau high
school to one who has been turned out
of a business college.
The Wausau high school offers
complete commercial training to the
young men and women of city free of
charge. The full course covers four
years; shorthand and typewriting are
taken up the first year and are con-
tinued throughout the course. In adj
dition to the shorthand and typewrit-
ing, commercial arithmetic and pen
manship are taken in the second year,
bookkeeping in the third year, and
commercial geography and commercial
law in the fourth year. In addition to
the commercial branches, work is given
in English, mathematics, history and
science, TO make the commercial course
the full equivalent of any high school
courses, so that a graduate from this
department leaves with thorough
high school training, as well as being
well equipped in special commercial
branches.
AT the end of the second year the
students ordinarily have sufficient
knowledge of shorthand and typewrit-
ing to take an Office position, and some
feel compelled to leave school at this
time, but the school urges the students
wherever practicable, to remain for a
full course, because the best positions
are demanding people who have had
at least full high school course. The
better command of English, the wider
knowledge of science ana history, the
larger vocabulary, the greater power
to do things, that is given the students
in their third and fourth years work,
makes them much more valuable in any
office where more than mere routine is
required of the stenographer.
That the graduates from the com
mercial department of the high school
have justified the expense incurred by
the city of Wansau in giving them their
education. is clearly shown by the re-
plies to circular letter recently sent
to all firms employing graduates of the
commercial department.. The letters
speak in high terms of the efficiency of
graduates, and compliment the school
on the excellence of its work. As a
sample of the letters we print the
following from the William G. Kreul
Co., (The Oliver Typewriting Coz of
Milwaukee.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Feb. 2S, 1907.
We have at various times assisted
students in securing positions who have
taken the commercial course in your
high school and shall be pleased to
have you advise us from time to time
VI lhoso WIZ Hoicditci couhpleie LHelI
course.
We have no hesitancy in recommend
ding the students who have completed
their course in your school and they
should have no difficulty in securing
positions, rs those of your graduates
for whom we have secured positions
were exceptionally well trained for a
business career. We wish to congratu-
late you or the high standard and
efficiency of your commercial depart
ment, and beg to state that if we can at
any time assist your students in secur-
ing positions, we shall be pleased to do
So VIM G.. KREUL Co.