The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-07-13
SI1nDEAL COLLEGE
IMPORTANT FACTOR.
EDUCATfoNAL INSTITUTION THAT
HAS SET THE. PACE ron
RICHMOND.
TRAINS FOR BUSINESS
HAS TURNED OFT MORE SUCCESS
FTLLY-EQUIPPED MEN AND
WOMEN THAN ANY BUSINESS
COLLEGE IN THE SOUTH.

The development, os q city should
be measured not on" by its extern
sion in square miles, the growth Of
its Industrial enterprises, ar It's in
creased population, but by the up
ward grade Of the intelligence Of its
citizens the higher standards OF its
business activities, and the increased
proportion of trained men equipped
TO execute The demands of It's bust
ness worle intelligently and effective
IL.
The Smithdeai Business college has,
for fovty~six years. first through Its
odd Dominion branch and later in
the whole Smithdeai combination,
been identified with the business COM
munity II this city. from the times
Of little Old Richmond, with its mod
est Office buildings. its dinky cars. It's
mildly moving citizens. to the pres
ent greater Richmonds towering sky
scrapers its elegant street railway
service, and It's hosts Of hustling citi-
zens with annexation bees buzzing in
their bonnets.
Trains For Business.
Certainly no other educational In
stitution in the State has trained for
business life so large a proportion of
the Virginia youth and. sent them out
equipped TO take their places and to
act we'll their parts in the business
community.
Said one Of the heads Of depart
ments OF large railroad in this city
recently: II will not employ any bat
Smithdeal students in nay Office; and
when asked why replied Because !
consider them better trained than any
other" A former student, now bus
sness man of Chicago. recently wrote:
IF you have kept an account, ] think
Won will find that the Smithdeal Bus
mess college has turned out more sue
cessful men and women than any
other college in the South"
A business man FIVE hundred miles
away. telephoning for help, stated
that he preferred Smithdeal train
ed student TO another applicant,
trained elsewhere, who had Ave years'
experience.
So general is the confidence OF bus
mess men I'm this institution, and sc
extensive the calls for It's students
that in the past eighteen years only
five persons have remained to be grad
waited from the shorthand department
before taking work. As many as 12E
calls In one month for It's students
TO take positions have been received
by the college, and, indeed. as a rule
only about one-third of the appli'
cations that come in can be supplied
MOSf OF inc puSIiiBSS~ AfAfittNt iif
in the city have Smhthdeal employees
or the proprietors themselves are for
ner >Smithdeal students, You viii
find them in the large banking insu-
tutions of the city-the Merchants
National, the. American National
Commonwealth. Bank OF Commercs
and Trusts. Merchants and Mechanics
Central. BROAD Street Richmond
Banking and Trust company, Church
Hill, Savings Bank Of Richmond, anf
other banks both in this city ant
State and throughout the entire South
AS proprietors of large business en-
terprtses as teachers or managers o
business colleges both here and II
other Cities, in railroading. law, man
4ufncturing. real estate, insurance and
in fact, nearly all lines of business
EmfthdeaI students have for year.
been playing important parts in tn'
evolution of Richmond,
Has Set the Pace.
The growth of the Smithdeal college
has kept full pace with that OF great