Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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REV. JOHN C. GEALE, S. J., Prefect of Studies and Discipline.

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THE LOYOLA ANNUAL 9 fot anti against Correspondence cl oois I T is needless to prove that the system of correspondence schools, to be discussed in this paper, is a very live ele- ment in the business and educational v orld of to-day. The most cursory reader of current periodical literature has glanced over the advertisements so cleverly worded, which appear prominently in magazines whose rates would prevent any but large undertakings from occupying their pages. And even those who run without reading must have, at one time or another, turned from their course to gaze into the win- dows of the branch offices of the system. The art of advertising, which the correspondence schools teach, is to be seen here in its most catchy form. Life-size figures in workman’s clothes, with hands bound with heavy rope, point the moral of the drudgery of life without educa- tion— at least, without that of the correspondence schools. Or else we have the doleful picture of a laborer, turning away from his employer’s desk with his discharge flying after him be- cause of his old-fashioned methods of work. And then the much-heralded triumph of “ the man who knows ” has greeted us both in print and picture, with the advertisement of the correspondence schools cleverly attached, v hich might seem to insinuate that, without the training of the I. C. S,, there is no man who knows.” The International Correspondence School has reason, how- ever, to be proud of its success. Its aim, so often proclaimed and insisted upon in striking headlines, namely, “ to raise salaries,” is being fulfilled to the evident satisfaction of stu- dents, if we may judge by the letters of appreciation “ volun- tarily sent.” And a glance at the origin and growth of this Or STUDfSS.