Andrews University - Cardinal Yearbook (Berrien Springs, MI)

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Department of Business Administration N this modern period of industrial and financial activity, there are many opportunities for those who are prepared to give efncient business leader- ship. Much more is now expected from a young person who has just finished school than was ez-:pected when business enterprises were conducted on a simpler scale and opportunities for business training were fewer. The aim of the Department of Business Administration is to provide a training which will prepare young people to assume responsibilities in financial management. Classes are offered in Accounting, Economics, Business Man- agement, Advertising, Salesmanship, and Business Law. These studies have been selected because it is felt that they will serve as a sound basis for the preparation needed in the work which the student will be called to do upon completion of his course. A two-year curriculum, including in addition to the business subjects already mentioned, courses in Bible, English, and history, leads to a diploma in Business. The work of this department may also be' offered as a major or minor in the four-year Literary course leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree. . lPage Sixty-onej

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Department of Secretarial Training survey of our national and denominational leadership reveals the fact that a large number-of those who are holding positions of responsibility began their careers as stenographers or secretaries. Eniciency in shorthand and typewriting is necessary to the success of the secretary. The international typewriting tests issued by various typewriter companies for which awards corresponding to the rate of speed and degree of accuracy are given, have been an additional incentive to the sixty-three type- writing students of the College to attain the highest possible degree of effi- ciency. More than one hundred such awards, ranging in speed from thirty to seventy-live words a minute, have been presented to the class members this year. ' Shorthand and Typewriting are merely the tool subjects of the Secre- tarial course, for the work of a secretary includes much more than the mere ability to take and transcribe dictation accurately. By receiving a training which will qualify her to answer correspondence, assist with editorial work, and, to carry on the work of her employer in his absence as he would do it himself, she is able to multiply his efficiency. The classes in Business Corre- spondence and Secretarial Training are designed to give this instruction and to give the students a larger vision of the scope of their work and the unlim- ited opportunities for service which open to the efficient secretary. lPage Sixtyl

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Academy OMETIMES persons ask, XN'here is the Academiy? It gives some grati- fication to be able to answer without hesitation, lt is right hereg in tact, all over the campus. The majority of the classes meet on the third Hoor of the Auditorium building where the academic students are privileged to be by themselves and allowed to come into closer association with those of their own age. The classes which require complicated apparatus, such as sciences and home economics. are taught in the same rooms used by the college students, thus giving the in- structors access to better equipment 'than otherwise would be possihle. The non-resident academic students also live in the same school homes as the college students. The E. M. C. Academy is unique among the academies of the Lake Union in that it makes no sweeping campaign by visiting neighboring churches to keep up the enrollment, and yet from the number of children seen at E. M. C. and the village Sabbath Schools it appears that the Academy will exist as long as the College. The Academy is not a side issue, for its students lead the way in get- ting gradesg and the Orchestra. Chorus. and other organizations have their quota from the Academic Department. So while the enrollment is only slightly more than seventy, there will he graduated a class that will compare in numbers and in character with the classes in other academies. Il'agc Sixty-txv'-'fl