Evening star., 1911-08-19
EDUCATIONAL WORK
AT Y. N. c. A. GROWS
More Than 600 Men and Boys
Receive instruction in Night
Classes Each Year.

Few Citizens of Washington realize the
extent to which the Young Mems Chris
tian Associations distinctiveIy education
al work has grown. A general notion that
evening classes in subjects of commercial
and preparatory character are conducted
is popularity held. A closer examination,
however. of the schedule of courses now
operated and organized shows the pro-
gram of evening study to be a large one,
with a staff Of thirty teachers serving
the Association Institute I'm the training
Of more than six hundred men and boys
each academic year.
Further examination shows such educa-
tional helps as the branch station of the
Public Library, which had a larger cir
culation than all of the other branch
library stations in Washington last year,
camera club with a complete equipment;
debating club, whose teams have visited
New York and Philadelphia in interct ty
debates, together with educational lee
lures by experts in various nelds. All
these are among the means used to pro-
mote this object of first Importance In
the education of the youth and manhood
Of the city in addition to the training Sc
cured in the public schools. When one
appreciates the extent of this service he
has fair estimate Of the scope ana
value of the Y. M. c. \. educational serv-
ice in Washington. \
Work Going On for Years.
Perhaps it ought to be noted that the
Y. M. C. A., is not new at this educa-
tional work 1t Is now entering upon Its
thirty-fourth season.
With the erection of the splendid struc-
ture of the Central Y. M. c. A. on g
street. the educational classes. both day
and evening. were given a chance to ex-
tend in numbers and in subjects taught.
Among the subjects covered in the vari-
Gus courses are college and technical
preparatory, mechanical and industrial
commercial and business and speciai vo-
cational. Supplementing classes and
clubs. the branch station of the Public
Library, which has been maintained by
the Y NJ. c. A. under the management
of the department of education fer the
past 6our years. had a total circulation
of nearly 1900 volumes. The clubs
have brought together young men inter
ested in photography. debating, social
science. court reporting and the like.
developed was the addition of the pro-
fessional course in accountancy two
years ago, under the name of the Wash
ington School of Accountancy, and with
text book material and instruction 1ur,
nished by Homer s. Pace, c. P. A., and
Charles A. Pace of New York, assisted
by Charles II. Schnepfe, c. P. A.; Frank
W. Elder. attorney-at-law, and John I.
Kennedy of this city
Now Regarded as Profession.
Accountancy until within the last few
years was not regarded as a profession,
but with the establishment of the c. +.
A. laws in New York and other states,
is now regarded as a profession entitled
to rank and ranking with law. medicine
and engineering. This rank is attained
not alone by virtue Of its being an oc-
cupation that properly involves liberal
education and mental rather than manual
labor but also in view of the fact that
Maryland, California. Ohio. New York
and many other states have by statute
recognized it as a profession.
The organizers. of accountancy schools
in the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tions have entered the field believing that
accountancyl in order to maintain and
strengthen it's position as. "A profession
must have professional school training
intensively upon the subjects of theory of
accounts practical accounting, auditing
and the law.