The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-09
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BUSINESS TRAINING
IMPORTANT FACTOR
Proper Preparations As Nee
essary As Exercise for
An Athlete
Growth and Success OF Smith
deal College Shows De-
mand in Commercial Life
for Employees Who are
Thoroughly Prepared
BY w. r. sMITHDEAL,
Manager of the Smithdeal Business
College.


country has entered upon period
Of It's existence In which the strug-
gle of competition Is becoming fiercer
and fercer and the iron raw of the
survival OF the fttest Is being more
and more largely demonstrated. Not
more surely does the trained athlete
distance his unframed opponent than
does the trained business man sue
coed, when the unframed, who trusts
to luck or who enters blindly upon
life. fails.
Given these conditions in the bust
ness world. and what is the natural
outcome? Why. the business training
school. the up-to-date commercial
school OF today.
The founder OF the Snithdeal Bust
ness College, the late Professor q. NJ.
Smithdeal. foreseeing the inevitable
growth of this demand and the op-
portunities attendant upon its fulfill
ment. established the smithdeai Bust
ness College in Greensboro, y. c.,
January i. 1883. From this date Its
history has been record or con-
slant increasing prosperity and use
fulness.
Moved to Richmond
Three years after It's establishment
In Greensboro, the necessity for a
larger field OF activity demanding re-
rnoval to a larger city, Richmond
became the home Of the college, with
quarters at 111S Fast Main street.
A. this time the Old Dominion
Business College. which was organized
In Richmond in iS67f aud WIS in
eorporated In 1858, was the only busi-
ness college in the city. This col
lege Professor Srnithdesl bought our
In 1888 and united with his own.
making the Su1iihdeal college the
oldest In the state and the second
Oldest In the South. In 1890. the
Richmond Shorthand and Typewrtting
College was. also bought and united
with the S1ntthdeaL
- Tbs contEnsIed. Eroxth Of the sahaal
shortly Required larger housing IA
cilities and in November. 1898, II was
quarters. also. became too small, and
the president determined to nuild a
permanent home for the school. with
the result that the present splendid
building was erected and in Scpten-
Der. 1898, became tho home OF
smithdeal Business college Since
thHt firile. at least six other business
cr'-sges have been started In Rich
mond.- most OF which have closed
the doors During ait this time the
Smithdeal combination has been
steadily mounting the hill of success.
the last twelve months being the most
successful In It's history. on August
{, 1919, the Haynes business college
was taken over by the Smithdeal
college.
Students DO Good Work.
So satisfactory has been the work
Of the Smithdeal students in thc bust
ness offices Of the city, az n result Of
the thorough and practical work done
In the various departments. that the
college holds an enviable place In the
confidence OF the public and in the
business community. and its students
are in constant demand for business
men.
One father wrote. some time ago,
that he would not take one thou
sand dollars far what his son secured
from a Sm'thieai course IL he could
not learn II again. Smithdeai students
are filling Important positions all
over rhe United States al salaries
ringing as.high at $4,000 and more
per year, and applications for Smith
4isai students are received from all
parts of.rfe Onion. So well cstab-
tssstlsd sfhT thnranghnass and reIia-
NIFTY has thfs' institution become.
that In an application received last
week hy Ions, distance phone. over
hyF hundred miles away, for n lady
ste6pgra pher and bookkeeper. the APP
pttcanle stated t1rar ne preferred
student directly from the Smithdeal
college rather than a young lady
trained elsewhere, who had had five
years experience.
The students of this institution
come. not only from all parts of the
I'm on but from foreign countries,
every season for the past five or six
years having seen patronage by some
foreign country.
An Enemy to Shams
This institution has always been
one of sAee greatest enemies te all
forms. of educational shams. So
thoroughly is this fact recognized that
a young man came to Richmond some
time ago and asked how he could
avoid u mistake in his selection He
and his friends visited the offices Of
1--WE firms. After he had entered the
Smithdeal College. he reported that
out Of the five Offices he visited, all
recommended Smithdeals as the best
and the most reliable. The father OF
another student after reading the
claims of superiority OF some other
schools of similar character, wrote
to two of the largest wholesale firms
~ Rifshsaorsa far advice In the mat
ter. Both counse1ed him to send his
son to the Smifhdeai College. Pages
could be filed with similar evidence
So complete Is the confidence of bust
ness men In this school and so ex-
tensive the calls for It's students, that
In the past seventeen years. only Ave
have remained to graduate from the
shorthand department. before taking
work. and hundreds of these young
people are in positions in Richmond
alone
1t Is interesting to know that this
school has been denominafed by
various publications. In statements
which We're absolutely unsolicited and
not paid Tor, as zone OF the very best
business colleges In America; the
leading business college south or the
Potomac river: "the one best repre-
senting its class in its State: ..the
best business college in the South:
"a deadly enemy OF educational shams
and superficial methods OF tenchings
Not the least factor in the sue
cess of the Smithieal COLLEGE. has been
the personal interest in its students
and the moral atmosphere, the stu
dent realizing that he Is dealing with
people TO whom his moral as we'll as
his business welfare IL a matter Of
deep concern.
State fair visitors are invited toll
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