Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-21
GIVE BUSINESS TRAINING
WORK OF INSTRUCTORS AT
WOODS COLLEGE.
Correct Defective Early Education in
Preparing Students for Work
a-day World.

Located on Capitol HILL, close to the
Library Of Congress, Is the commercial
school Of Prof. Court +. Wood This is
one of the iong-estabiished schools OF
Washington, which makes a specially Of
preparing students for business life and
service in the government departments.
One OF the features of the instruction is
that 1t is both individual and practical.
Prof. Wood realizes that there are many
successful men who. owing to a defective
early education, cannot write an accepta-
BILE letter, and while they are experts in
their own line, have to depend on we'll
paid clerks who have the fundamental
education that fits them for their posi-
TONS
In order to train young men and women
TO NIL this special need the school makes
close study Of penmanship, spelling and
punctuation. English ana arithmetic, sew
eral subjects which are very apt to be
CLOSED over in the education OF young
people in the present day.
Special pains are taken with all Of
these branches. and when the school
turns out graduate he or she Is sure
to be well grounded in the essentials
which every business man expects from
his employees.
Care and Neatness.
In typewriting particular attention is
paid to neatness and accuracy, speed is
not neglected and some of the swiftest
operators In the government service have
been turned out from this school. But
above all things the pupil is taught the
need OF care and neatness SO that when
typewriter letter is turned out 1t Is a
piece OF work TO which no business man
or department chief would hesitate to
anix his signature. The touch system Of
typewriting Is taught.
IL has been found on investigation that
simple arithmetic is one OF the subjects
with which the civil service examiners
nave the most trouble, and care is taken
to see that all Of the students are well
grounded In this respect. and that they
are taught simple and expeditions meth
DDS of rapid calculation, such as are in
actual use among expert accountants
The course In banking and bookkeeping
Is OF the most practical sort, and care is
taken TO have the students trained in
actual transactions, so that at the end of
the course they are well grounded and
reasoning workers and not simply well
drilled copyists with rule-of-thumb
knowledge to transactions that they have
never been called on to put into practice
Train for Civil Service.
A study has been made OF civil service.
and students are trained for special ex-
aminations by individual teachers, who
are thoroughly in touch with the subjects
under consideration. This has an in
estimable value. because the student who
goes to an examination knows at once
that he Ii dealing with matters in which
he has previously been well trained, and
Is not In strange territory.
The school has placed a great MANY
students In good government positions.
and can point out many responsible de.
partmental positions that are filled by its
graduates. Students for the civil service
are trained not only in classes by in
dividuai instructors. but there is also a
course OF training by mail for those who