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Show LATTER-DAY SAINTS' BUSI-NESS BUSI-NESS COLLEGE. Status, Growth and Purpose. Business knowledge is the secret of success. No matter what one's vocation vo-cation may be, he must do business. A business education gives confidence and strength to any young man or woman, and lays the foundation for a prosperous career. In this college, the course of study is thorough and comprehensive. It has been outlined with great care, and includes all the usual commercial branches as well as others of the highest practical and disciplinary value. It turns out skilled stenographers, stenogra-phers, competent bookkeepers, qualified quali-fied accountants, and expert telegraphers. telegra-phers. For fourteen years the Salt J.akc Business College, and for seven years the Latter-day Saints' Business College, Col-lege, were the leading commercial schools in the West for the training of young men and women in business branches, and for securing good positions posi-tions for their graduates, also for man) of their undergraduate students These positions have frequently been lucrative, in pleasant places, and in lines of steady advancement. There has been a constant demand for the graduates of these institutions among reliable business houses of this city and state a fact that furnisher the best of evidence as to the practical nature of the training given. But improvement is always possible. pos-sible. It was recently decided, therefore, there-fore, by the management of the Latter-day Saints' University, to purchase the Salt Lake Business College, and to combine it with the Latter-day Saints' Business College. The Latter-day Saints' Business college col-lege is now undoubtedly the foremost institution for commercial training within the inter-mountain west. In equipment, facilities for pracrical work, and faculty of instruction, it ranks well with any business co'lege in the United States. The Business college is a department depart-ment of the Latter-day Saints' University, Uni-versity, co-ordinate with the High School department; its students come from all parts of this State, and from Nevada, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, Iowa, Montana, New York, Japan. Illinois, Ill-inois, Arizona, Washington and Cma-da; Cma-da; its graduates are sought for by leading business firms to occupy responsible re-sponsible and lucrative positions; its enrollment of students, last year, and its courses of study, represent an amount and quality of practical educational edu-cational work, and a public appreciation apprecia-tion thereof, that arc unparalleled rfinong Western commercial schools General Information. The City. Salt Lake City is the focus of all commercial activity of the intermounij tain West, and is the metropolis of; the Great Basin. There arc few en- ' ; ; its 1 tcrpriscs of any magnitude that do not have headquarters in this city. It possesses pos-sesses factories, machine shops, mercantile mer-cantile establishments, banks, commission com-mission houses, clearing houses, ex- -j, changes, railway and telegraph ccn-ters ccn-ters all giving a zest and vigor to a business life not enjoyed elsewhere in the state. A glance at this life is an inspiration to the ambitous young woman. I Business Houses. The Business College is in close touch with the business men of the cit'. There is scarcely an institution that does not number among its most trusted employes former students of p this college. As a result, attending students, investigating actual business methods as carried on in the various business houses, arc shown the utmost ut-most courtesy. .Environments. Our lives arc largely the product of our environments. What we sec, hear, and come into daily contact with, moulds and shapes us more truly than what we read and study. The student of nature will find his best school in a habitation remote from the haunts of men; the artist, in the world of pictures and statuary; the musician, musi-cian, in the realms of song; the scholar, schol-ar, in the academic shade of books 1 but the business man the man who must grapple with the thousand details de-tails of production and exchange must come in contact with actual ! business life. Location. The school is situated at the head of the principal business street, in the . most desirable part of the city. Tt is within easy access of all the leading business houses and of the strongest vigor and activity of business life, and yet but a stone's throw from the quiet seclusion of the beautiful grounds of the Temple Block, now open to the public as a park. Nature of Wprk. It is the aim of the Business College Col-lege to provide a thorough, practical, and technical business training. It is not intended to give an extended course in commerce, such as is given &. in the universities of the country. The aim is to fit young men and young women for actual positions in business busi-ness offices. To this end, the major portion of the instruction in bookkeeping, shorthand, short-hand, and typewriting is individual There arc several advantages in this plan the most important being '.hat it permits the student to proceed as rapidly as his ability will allow. He is never held back for the sake of stu- J dent j less capable than himself. Some A students have in three months finished work that other students have required re-quired twelve months to complete. Instruction in all the other branches is mainly by class work, but individual indivi-dual assistance is given whenever desired. |