Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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©epartmente tn Betail vV gbbanceb ©Horfe in political (Economy anb Commercial Hato THE purpose in this department is to enable the pupil to learn enough about law to keep him out of the courts and the difficulties into which ignorance of legal documents and usages might lead him. The course in economics lies along the main lines of political economy with strong branch lines extending into the fields of local industries. Jlfjpgiologp anb JJotanp THE work in botany precedes and prepares the way for that in physiology. Such plant-structures as are necessary for an understanding of the physiology and for a very general view of the plant-kingdom are studied. In this work the plants used are largely those of economic importance. In studying the lower forms the subjects of yeasts and molds in the household, the useful bacteria, the precautions necessary in the case of bacteria causing disease, are taken up. Among the higher plants special attention is given to those that arc helpful later in the course in commercial geography. In the physiology the emphasis is laid on hygiene. An effort is made throughout to teach the girls to care for themselves, especially under such conditions as they are likely to meet in a business life. Commercial eograpf)p THE course in commercial geography considers commercial conditions, commercial products and commercial countries. Under conditions are included those natural and other phenomena that affect commerce in any manner, climate, surface, fertility of soil and natural resources. Products includes a study of those things which enter into trade, both agricultural and manufactured products. The location of the different countries is learned with reference to latitude and longitude in such a manner that 11

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by unsystematized effort, caused unsatisfactory results. Today the problem is to secure the best results and minimize the expenditure of time and labor. Dealing with the novelty of untried processes, the High School of Commerce must make experiments, hence its first year has been occupied with problems of a vast nature. What of the old methods must be omitted, what of the new are of vital importance can be decided only by practical demonstration. The school has from the first endeavored to set the standard of business education high, to aim at meeting the wants of the century, and to advance cautiously but continuously until the commercial education shall in a measure be commensurate with the world’s commercial interests. 10

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distances and differences in time can be calculated mentally with sufficient accuracy to estimate freight deliveries and the receipt of telegrams. Transportation routes and sources of commercial products arc carefully considered. The department is fully equipped with maps, globes and lantern slides for the proper illustration of the work. IN the study of banking each pupil is required to occupy every position in a modem bank except the presidency. Loose-leaf systems, card-indexing, cataloging, and the various applications of system in business organization are put into practice by each pupil. The use of helps and short-cuts is en couraged. Enough of advertising and auditing is introduced to open the way to development along these lines. HIS department aims to give to students mastery over a foreign lan- guage sufficient to enable them to converse and carry on correspondence in such language. Much attention is paid to grammatical construction and to commercial correspondence. Besides acquiring a general vocabulary the student also becomes thoroughly acquainted with a broad technical vocabulary, covering the terms peculiar to commerce. In making out exercises, this department keeps in close touch with other departments and whenever possible makes the topics of these the basis for work in modem languages. Considerable time is given to conversational exercises. At all times good English and good spelling is insisted upon in translating a modern language into English. IT is the purpose of this department to make good business writers, to aid the students in becoming masters of a smooth, rapid and legible handwriting that shall be suited to business forms, account books and business correspondence in general. The copies are systematically arranged from the simple elements composing the letters to the sentence and full written page, and with which is combined all the ordinary business forms such as notes, checks, receipts, drafts, letters of credit, etc. Good writing can be made habit, and it is for this we are aiming. gfobanceb S lork in Banking, Jfinance, Business Organisation, transportation, etc. iWobern languages $3enmanskip anb Business Jforms 12