Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-10-21
HAS WITHSTOOD
RAVACFS OF TIME
National Business College, of
Roanoke, Weathered Many
a Gale and Flourishing.

Among Roanokc's well-established
and prosperous institutions is the Ma
tional Business College. This institu-
tion is no longer an experiment, and
it's future no longer a matter of
doubt. 1t takes time, money and
brains to establish and run a college
successfully. The National Business
College has these and other absolute
assurances of its success. 1t was es-
tablshed more than twenty years
ago, and has seen the rise and decline
of many business colleges. This
school has had no phenomenal or
mushroom growth. Through the years,
President Coulter has worked quietly,
earnestly and successfully, gaining
the confidence of the business world,
extending the influence and acquaint-
ance of the school, until, at present,
stenographers, book keepers and type
writers are To be found with
hundreds of leading banks, coal COM
panies, wholesale houses, law firms
and other business Offices in every
town and city in many States of the
Union, and the number grows from
year to year. The editor of this pa
per, upon a recent short visit to
Roanoke, had the opportunity of look
ing through this commercial school,
and confesses that he was surprised
by what he saw. The number of stu
dents, the arrangement and equip
ment of building, number and promi-
nence of the faculty. course of stu
dy, etc, are much more extensive
and complete than it was thought to
be. The management haven't adver-
tised extensively in the country pa
pers, not SO much so, perhaps as
they should have done. The students
come largely from the country, and il
is in the hope of bringing the school
to the notice of the young people who
read this paper that this article is
written.
As said above, this school was es-
tablished in 1889. Mr.. E. M. Couul-
ter has been identified with it since
its beginning, and for the past thir-
teen years has been it's Pres ident
and general manager. In 1909 the
present new and commodious build
ing, costing $50, 600 was completed,
and is now thoroughly and well qeuip-
ped with all needed modern appli-
ances for the instruction and conven-
fence of it's large number of stu
dents. The Faculty is composed of
some fifteen people, and last year
there was an enrolment of over four
hundred day students. These figures
make the National Business College
the largest in the State, taking it en-
tirely out of the "one-man'' class.
There are many advantages in large
school generally speaking, and in
this school in particular, which can
not be given in the space of a brief
article. The advantages of a good,
thorough business education are being
appreciated more and more in the
South as growth and development ad-
vances, and new opportunities and
possibilities daily arise. Young men
and women, thoroughly equipped, are
in demand everywhere. Our mountain
country has hundreds of fine boys and
girls who could fill important and lu-
crative positions if prepared by train
ing such as is given in a good school,
and, as we understand it, the Nation
al Business College does not propose a
hop and-skip course, short cut to
success, but a thorough development
and preparation which will fit the
pupil for the stern, responsible and
useful vocations of life. If any of the
readers of this paper are at all inter-
ested in a business education, land
many of them should be), they should
write to President E. M. Coulter,
Roanoke, for catalog and any infor-
nation desired.