PORTLAND BUSINESS COLLEGE. PORTLAND, OREGON. FACULTY. A. P. ARMSTRONG, Superintendent and Business Manager of Both Schools. H. W. HERRON, In charge of Theoretical and Practical Department, Portland School. C. L. STUBBS, Engrosser and Teacher of Ornamental Penmanship, Portland School. W. C. HARVEY, Teacher of Business Writing, in charge of Business Practice, Portland School. MISS ETTA E. MOORE, In charge of Shorthand Department, Portland School. MISS GABARELLE CLARKE, In charge of Typewriting Department, Portland School. .G. V. HOOPENGARNER, In charge of Telegraphic Department Portland School. A. S. HILL. In charge of English Department, Portland School. W. I. STALEY, In charge of Business Department, Teacher of Penmanship, Salem School. MISS AZALIE COCHRAN, In charge of Shorthand and Typewriting Departments, Salem School. J. W. McCULLOCH, In charge of English Department, Salem School. DISCIPLINE. Discipline is of the greatest importance in the management of a school. No matter how thorough the course of study, or how efficient the teachers, without good discipline the work of the school is without avail. Good discipline forms habits of care, industry, perseverance and promptness, so essential to success in after life. Poor discipline swells the ranks of that unreliable class who are of no account in any capacity. We strive to have all students feel that in us they have faithful teachers and true friends who will aid them in every possible way, and we do not intend that any student shall come to us with good habits and principles and leave us with those habits and principles tarnished. We require all students to be punctual and regular in attendance and faithful in application to study. No business education is of any value without correct business babits. Those only will succeed who are honest, studious, persevering and industrious, and these qualities we endeavor to inculcate. HISTORY AND DESIGN OF THE SCHOOL. In November, 1866, this school issued its first scholarship, and admitted its first student. Since that time it has been in session day and evening throughout the year, without vacation. The course of studies has undergone many changes, also. From a few studies taught at first, additions have been made year by year, until instruction is now given in almost any branch called for. The design of the school is to give to young and middle-aged men and women a thorough knowledge of business affairs, so that whatever may be their occupation, they will be the better able to secure themselves the substantial fruits of their labor. To this end. the institution is made a practical school of business, complete in all its appointments and offering advantages of the highest order in all its departments. A BUSINESS EDUCATION. At no time in the history of the world has a business education. been more essential to success than at the present. Competition has grown fiercer every day until "the race of life has become intense: the runners are treading upon each other's heels; woe to him who stoops to tie his shoe-string." The weak are pushed aside, while the strong win fame and fortune. Not only so, but the rich of to-day may be the poor of to-morrow, and the best capital one can possess is a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of business, and how it is transacted. This capital is permanent; it is always available. Thieves cannot steal nor reverse of fortune impair or destroy it. It is the hidden force which impels through all currents and over all obstacles. Thousands are to-day out of employment because they have qualified themselves for nothing beyond unskilled manual labor. In the great business centers of the country the majority of those whose active minds and busy hands direct and control the complex network of systems necessitated by our immense commercial interests, are those who possess a business education only. The demand of the day is practical knowledge suited to the every-day affairs of life. SITUATIONS FOR STUDENTS. We do not promise situations to students, and will not under any circumstances. No reputable school will promise positions, either directly or indirectly, as a means of securing patronage. Hundreds of our former students are now engaged in business for themselves, or holding responsible and lucrative positions in various sections of the Northwest, both as book-keepers and stenographers, which should satisfy any ambitious person that work may always be had by those properly qualified. While our annual attendance is very large, many of our students join us for the purpose of fitting themselves for going into business on their own account. None of these care for work, leaving comparatively few who really want positions. For more than a year, scarcely a week has passed in which we have not had more applications for help than we could meet. Our school is so widely and favorably known that we receive a great many calls for help each year, from our own city and various other sections of the Northwest. We never allow to go unimproved the opportunities thus afforded of placing students in positions, if we have any out of employment at the time whom we deem to be qualified to discharge the duties of the places offered; but we are never so unmindful of the future welfare of a student as to make a "hit or miss" response to every application for help, whether we know the one sent competent to do the work required or not. We are ever on the alert to further the interest of our patrons in every way, and deem it both a privilege and a pleasure to aid all competent and trustworthy students in securing employment. This we do entirely free of cost, and without any thought of making the most of such action as an advertisement. We therefore make no special display or public announcement of the names of students. whom we aid in securing positions. THE BUSINESS COURSE. The branches constituting the regular business course are single and double entry book-keeping, as applied to banking, railroading, steamboating, wholesale and retail merchandising, manufacturing, commission, jobbing, farm accounts, etc., changing books from single to double entry, arithmetic, grammar, spelling, penmanship. correspondence, business and office practice, exchange, partnership settlements, writing entire and filling blanks for promissory note, receipt, due bill, sight and time drafts, bank checks, etc. These branches are all included in the scholarship, and are taught in the most thorough manner by competent and experienced teachers. A first-class usable education is guaranteed to all who complete the course. PRACTICAL DEPARTMENT. The time required in this department varies from three to six weeks. The work is really a continuation of that begun in the theoretical department; such new features as the student is now able to comprehend being introduced. Daily instruction in solid business writing continues. At this point in the course most students are good average business writers. The study of arithmetic is also vigorously prosecuted; the next step in commercial calculations being the accurate and rapid solution of problems as they arise in the transactions of the business practice department. Book-keeping, as a progressive science, is carried forward materially, the student becoming familiar with the principles of the subject, as applied to the details of business. This branch is now studied, not merely as a science, but as it is applied in the various methods of conducting books in actual business. Correspondence, commercial law and a review of the English branches taken are continued with the other work in hand. BUSINESS PRACTICE DEPARTMENT. In business practice, the student first assumes the responsibility of conducting business on his own account, and undertakes to perform the duties of a business man. On entering the department, sufficient capital to conduct the business undertaken is supplied, consisting of neatly engraved notes of the college bank. Here, it is designed to afford a knowledge of the customs, habits and usuages of the business world. The student begins as a wholesale and retail merchant, opens his books, orders a stock of goods, opens an account with the bank, makes daily deposits, has notes discounted, etc., pays by means of checks, drafts, notes, or otherwise, and carries on an extensive trade precisely the same as any regular merchant. The special advantages claimed for this department consist in the great variety of transactions illustrated, the number and character of books employed, short methods of record, the thorough drills and examinations, and the facility with which all work can be tested by the teacher in charge. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION. Our methods of teaching combine individual and class instruction from black-board illustrations and exercises, and practice in writing with pencil and pen from dictation. Thorough work is insisted on from the first, and our students are taught to use shorthand as will be required of them in business. Hence, those who complete our course and take positions will find nothing there to confuse or bewilder. TIME REQUIRED. It is impossible to state definitely the time required for completing the course. Each student is allowed to progress as rapidly as possible to master the work, regardless of the advancement of anyone else. This is all that any student should desire, and is all that we can promise. ST. HELEN'S HALL. PORTLAND, OREGON. THE RT. REV. B. WISTAR MORRIS, MISS MARY D. RODNEY, MISS LYDIA RODNEY, MISS CLEMENTINA RODNEY, HENRY BOLANDER, Ph. D., MISS MARTHA M. GILTNER, B. A., (WELLESLEY), DR. F. B. EATON, Lecturer in Physics and Chemistry. |