page_title: Scholfield's Commercial College
section_title: Courses
hierarchical_section_title: Scholfield's Commercial College / Courses
caption_attribution_description: English: Advertisement for Scholfield's Commercial College, 174 Westminster Street, Providence, RI. Advertisement in the Fall River (Massachusetts) Daily Evening News, 04 October 1890, page 2. Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52021440/fall-river-daily-evening-news/
context_page_description: Scholfield's Commercial College was a business college in Providence, Rhode Island during the second half of the 19th century. It is no longer in operation.
context_section_description: Bookkeeping was the main course of study at Scholfield's. The school promoted itself as teaching a superior and original method, which they called "Scholfield's Manuscript System of Book-Keeping." This method dispensed with textbooks, and was simultaneously more thorough and faster to learn than other accounting methods. The school offered "special attention" to bookkeeping for the Jewellery industry, which was an important industry in Providence at the time. Further, the school boasted that Scholfield's System would "render the perpetration of fraud or embezzlement by workmen and employees nearly impossible." 
  A catalog from 1867 lists courses including surveying; civil engineering; navigation; and penmanship. Also offered was a course on "Common English Studies", which included arithmetic, grammar, geography and other studies. Students could study a basic level of Latin, Greek, French, and German. In 1892 the school offered courses in "shorthand, oil and watercolor painting, and mechanical drawing."
  Women studying bookkeeping were allowed to study with the men in the Bookkeeping Department, while other women could enroll in the Ladies Department, which offered instruction in penmanship, Belles-lettres, drawing, and French.
caption: This 1890 advertisement for Scholfield's in the Fall River Daily Evening News promises "no classes ... each student is favored with separate instruction."[5]
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