BUSINESS SCHOOL
There are two reasons for a Business School.
In the first
place, business has now become a profession, and many of
its principles and usages can be learned to best advantage
in a class, under an instructor,
just as law and medicine are learned. The best educated college graduate
can still learn something in a business school.
And in the second place
many who can not or do not get a college course are thrust
into business, and need the best preparation that they
can
secure.
For these reasons “business schools” are thronged
in all our great cities.
If then multitudes of young people are to
receive a “business training” it
is important that they attend the best school. For the school at Berea
these special advantages are claimed:
It is under the management of trained
educators who can insure the use of methods which will
give the best results.
It is conducted in connection with
a College Academy, Music Department, etc., so that its
students can take
other branches at small expense,
and share in
the general educational advantages of a literary institution. (Lectures,
Concerts, Library of 12,000 volumes, etc.)
It is removed from the
distractions and temptations of a great city, and is
surrounded by the best intellectual and moral influences.
Its fortunate location and careful management secure health,
comfort, and scale of expenses which defies competition.
The Business School is under the same general supervision
as the other departments, and under the immediate direction
of its Head,
Tutor Potter,
to whom correspondence
should be directed.
General Information
When to enter. Students may begin work at any time during
the school year convenient to themselves, but will find
it much to
their advantage to begin with the opening of the Fall or
Winter Term. (See calendar page 4.)
Time Required. The time
required to complete the Business Course depends largely
upon the ability and application of the student, usually from six to
nine months.
Requirements for Admission. Students entering
for a Business Course should possess a fair common school
education
with English especially emphasized.
Students deficient in any branch will find an excellent opportunity
to make it up in one of the many Academy or Model School
classes.
Graduation. Those who complete the course and
pass a satisfactory examination will be awarded a certificate
of graduation by the College.
Situations. No reliable
institution will promise situations to students. Representatives
of Berea
College have a wide acquaintance in the large
cities of the country.
It would hardly be possible for any school to be better prepared
to aid worthy graduates in securing positions.
We
shall be pleased to give additional information relative
to expenses and other matters.
Address, Edgar A. Potter,
Berea, Kentucky.
Estimate of Expenses for one Term in the Business School.
| Tuition and Incidental Fee |
$10.00 |
|
$10.00 |
| *Rent, fuel and Lights |
4.00 |
|
6.00 |
| Books |
3.50 |
|
6.00 |
| Board, first month |
4.40 |
|
6.00 |
| Board, second month |
4.40 |
|
6.00 |
| Board, third month |
4.40 |
|
6.00 |
| |
$30.00 |
|
$40.00 |
*This implies that a student furnishes his own
bedding, etc.
EXTRAS
| Stenography |
6.00
|
|
|
| Rent of typewriter, 1 hr. per
day |
3.00
|
|
|
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.
English.—The student receives the best possible
instruction, being placed in the College or Academy class
for which he is
best fitted, and coached by his instructor in the business
school.
Mathematics.—The student has the double advantage
of being placed in the College or Academy class for which
he is best fitted,
and coached by his instructor in the business school.
Commercial Law.—Lectures covering the general principles
of common and statutory law, and legal procedure, as they
apply to contracts, partnerships, loans, liens, collections,
importations,
and other commercial transactions.
Business Writing.—Perhaps the first thing by which
a young man applying for a position is judged by his handwriting.
Daily
practice is given under careful supervision.
Business Forms.—This is an important branch of Commercial
Law, and thorough instruction is given in the drawing of
notes, leases, wills, mortgages, certificates of stock,
bills of sale,
etc.
Business Correspondence. – The great volume of business
is done by correspondence, and our students are trained in
a terse, clear, and easy style of composition, and are
practiced in letters regarding all branches of business
and trade.
Bookkeeping. – This is one of the most practical
applications of mathematics. A thorough course in single
and double entry,
with numerous special devices used by expert accountants
is given.
The World’s Fair. – This is the most perfect realization
of the “actual business system” which is recognized
as the only up-to-date method. For The World’s Fair
we have all the apparatus of actual trade and traffic-banks,
stores,
stocks, and bonds, monies, office, market reports. Each student
is furnished with a certain capital, rents a store or office,
opens a set of books, deposits, his funds in a bank, negotiates
loans, handles foreign exchange, keeps track of his resources
and liabilities, and completes his transactions with a profit
or loss according to his skills and attention to business.
The transactions of this miniature business world are often
as exciting
as a ball game, and the student quickly acquires a more complete
and varied business experience than would be gained by long
employment in any single department of a great city establishment.
