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Show An Interesting Institution To sec fifty or sixty pairs of hands working in unison; the tapping tap-ping of the many keys sounding as one; hands rising and falling as if impelled by a machine. Such briefly describes the sight of the typewriting students at the L'tali Business College. This institution, which is located in the Jennings Block at First South and Main streets, in addition to its typewriting department includes in-cludes all those things and matters which pertain to a thorough commercial com-mercial course. The successful management and conduct of a business college docs not entirely depend upon those conditions which usually appertain apper-tain to district schools. In this, reference is more especially made to the fact that in the district schools the children arc taught in classes. Individual instruction is the exception and not a rule. Therefore it is that those students who arc apt and quick must, perforce, remain behind be-hind with the laggards. When promotion time comes, it is true that the workers arc rewarded re-warded by being prompted, but during the term the bright and the dull must work together. In an up-to-date concern like the Utah Business College, individual indi-vidual instruction is the great keynote of success. By this means, the bright student may progress as rapidly as possible, while those who arc not so progressive, or such good students may take their own time. In the foregoing allusion was made to the simultaneous work of the students in typewriting, something that does not exist in any other like institution in the state. Dictation on the typewriter is given to the class. Hence all the students working together, have the conii-dence conii-dence given them by the company of many others. This serves to strengthen the weak and to make perfect the best. A visit to the college is an interesting one. Here is a great large room, scattered around which are the desks of the students. Here sit some of them pondering over some weighty bookkeeping problem ; over there are a number working on shorthand dictation. In another corner is a corps of them working on the typewriters, while hovering over all are the teachers, a number of bright, intelligent men, who give careful consideration to every student. If a student be bright and apt, progress is rapid. If, on the other hand the student is backward not necessarily from laziness but because the mind works slowly the teachers are considerate, they arc conscientious, they are patient. The student is carefully and painstakingly taught and shown those things and matters which prove hard to understand. But when the mind of the student once grasps the point indicated, then progress is rapid. But, be the student slow or rapid in his or her work for both boys and girls, young men and young women attend this college when they graduate, they are turned out thorough; every detail of business is theirs from the intricate points of commercial law to the pot hooks of shorthand and the flowery embellishments of fancy penmanship. pen-manship. Mr. E. C. Davis, manager of the college, is a thoroughly experienced experi-enced man. He has had half a score years of experience in teaching, both in district schools and business colleges, and brings to bear a ripe fund of experience and a wide grasp of the needs of the pupils. He is assisted by a corps of experienced teachers. The Gregg system of shorthand is taught, also other systems if the student has had a smattering in one and desires to finish the course. In three months the student in the Gregg system is in good shape for dictation, and when he graduates is competent to write 150 words a minute which can be read like it was print. The college gives a full course to those who do not understand the English language very well, qualifying them to read and write it fluently. The college teaches shorthand and typewriting, business English, business spelling, practical bookkeeping, ornamental penmanship in all its branches and all the necessities required to be a good business man or woman. There is a day and night session, the day session lasting from 9 to 12 and 1 :15 to 3:30, and the night session from 7 to 9 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. An inspection of the college and an inquir' into its terms and requirements re-quirements will be both interesting and instructive, for the terms are right and the results the best. JK Control Her Half. "Now that we are married," he said, "we arc one, and I must insist that this be the last time you appear in public in a low-necked gown." "We may be one," she responded with asperity, "but you are only half of us, and I shall dress my half as I please." Young's Magazine. |