The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-11
AC|TY OF SCHOOLS
Topeka Is the Educational Gen.
tor of the West.
Every Convenience for Students
Can Be Found Here.
A HEALTHFUL PLACE.
The Cost of Living Here Is
Small.
SomafhiuU Ahont TouoEa,s Ed.
A HEALTHFUL PLACE.
Something About Topeka's Ed
vocational Institutions.

Topeka offers better advantages and
greater advantages as a college town
when the averages are struck than
perhaps any city in the west. This
statement, which appears like boast.
is borne out by facts. The winter
climate here is unsurpassed anywhere
in the country except Florida and
California. The water supply is as
pure and clear as could be desired,
and the fcity is we'll located, the streets
are wide and in the matter of i'm
provements, street car service. gas for
fuel and every modern convenience
nothing is left to be desired.
The train service in and out OF To-
peka is taken care Of by the three big
trunk lines of the west, the Santa Fe,
Rock Island and Union Pacific, while
the Missouri Pacific has line entering
the city. Then Topeka is a convention
city and offers the advantages of these
gatherings as study for pupils OF her
eight private educational institutions
Then there is the state historical
library, the most complete by far IN
this section of the country, open at all
times to the researches OF the stud
ents The bird collection at the state
house is one of the most notable ana
complete in the country and the
horticultural exhibit is also very fine.
Topeka is beautiful place in which
to live, located in the high and healtny
Kaw valley. The cost of living mere
is no greater than in smaller cities
and towns of the state and there are
hundreds of good boarding houses in
every part of the city. These items
are very important in the makeup of
a college town and the growth and
success of our schools during the past
few years attest the fact. Every ad-
1a or
Besides the state house for reference
and study of many interesting sub
jects at close hand, there are five hos
pitfalls for the medical student. The
course of study can be chosen from
among three splendid business col
leges, a theological school, ladies' coll
lege exclusively, correspondence and
manual training schools. In other
words the student may have the adj
vantage of a dozen different schools
each making a specially of one par
ticular thing.
AS important, probably, as any of
the above advantages is the fact that
Topeka is a clean, moral city. The
joint business and whisky drug stores
have been suppressed here. There isl
not a city of this size in the United
States that ican point TO a record of
less whisky and beer sales and drunk
enness than Topeka. The police reg
ulations are very strict and enforced
to the letter and the spirit. Gambling,
immoral houses and joints are barred
here, and it is a matter of city pride
how we'll the law along this line has
been enforced. There is no red
light" district here, and the business
streets are clean and safe from one
end to the other.
When one strikes an average Of all
the important conditions that go to
make an ideal college town or city it
will be found that Topeka, the capital
city of the Sunflower state, ranks
above that of any city, large or small,
in the west
The city is now paying more atten-
ton than ever before to the work or
developing her educational resources
and thus reaping the natural advant-
ages possessed as a city of culture and
learning. 1t is expected that all rec |
ords in attendance at the schools and
colleges of this city will be broken
next winter.
Topeka Business College.
The widening influence of this
school and the constantly increasing
attendance has recently caused the re-
moval of this institution to still larger
quarters than formerly used The
college now occupies the four num-
bers of the Capital block on East
Eighth avenue, right in the center of
the city and only a few steps from the
transfer station of all the city and
suburban car lines. The rooms are
large. properly furnished. well yenti-
lated, perfectly lighted, heated by
steam and are models in arrange
ment. comfort and convenience.
A high grade of scholarship has al 4
ways been the prime object OF the
proprietors of this school. No i'm
practical theories are advanced but
students are properly and thoroughly
trained as business demands. Expe-
rience in the various lines of work
and a continued success in preparing
students for business pursuits justify
the methods employed; and the vari-
Gus and difficult kinds of work in
which the students engage directly
from school, their uniform success
and the excellent salaries received,
are the best evidences that the courses
of study are foundeed upon correct
principles.
The proprietors give their entire
attention to teaching and to oversee
ing the various departments, and the
many interesting features OF the
course and much of the success of the
school are doubtless due TO their prac-
teal knowledge of the subjects and
tho original methods employed. By
the unique methods here employed in
business practice the student is placed
in the same position. assumes the
same relation to proprietor and per-
forms MS Work eXdctly III lle Same
manner he afterwards does in the
business world.
That the course Of instruction in
the Topeka Business college has
reached a marked degree of excel
lence and entirely meets the demands
of business life is witnessed by the
success of thousands of its former |
students who are now occupying adj
vantageous positions all over the
United States, and when young ladies
and young gentlemen. after a few
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