Tarkio College - Tarkiana Yearbook (Tarkio, MO)

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THOMAS F. CAMPBELL, A.M., MARGARET ALLEN. P fiI1CiIJ21l- Shorthand and Typewriting. Bookkeeping, Commercial Law, Com- mercial Geography ancl Elementary Economics. MARY S. MCCALEB, B. S. J. CLIFFORD DOWEL,L, Grammar, Arithmetic and Correspond- Penmanship and Actual Business ence. ...58...

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THE COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT. This department of the College has always maintained a high standard of excel- lence as compared with the surrounding business colleges and this year an effort has been made to considerably raise this standard both in the line of business training and in the line of general education. For the first time in the history of the department a four-year course has been offered, especially planned for those who purpose to become mechanics, artisans, farmers, or business men, and who for various reasons may not find it possible to take a full college course. Some work has been given in this course during the past year and it is hoped that a number of young men and women may during the coming year avail themselves of this opportunity for a very practical education. As a means of promoting the use of good English and giving a practical and very much needed drill in composition, the students have organized a society, which has been styled the Chamber of Commerce, and membership in which may be made a require- ment in the commercial students, course in the future. The exercises as planned, diff fer considerably from the ordinary programs of literary societies, in that special stress is placed upon such work as may be useful in business life. Debates are confined as far as possible to commercial questions, essays take the form of business correspondence or advertisement writing. Original stories may find a place under the guise of drummer's yarnsf' or imaginary Hwrite-ups of some member's future success in life and at the close of each session there is an open parliament for the discussion of the contents of the Blunder Box-or collection of grammatical errors which members have noted and rea ported since the preceding meeting. While the short time that the students of this department remain in school and the industry with which they push businessi' in the Commercial Room gives them but little time for any athletics outside of required gymnasium practice, yet a number of the members of the First Basketball Team of the College, this year were Commercials, and in the contest between the classes and departments the Commercial team played in the final contest for the championship. Football and baseball in season came in also for a share of the athletic activity and take it all in all the year has been one of full num- bers, good men, and good work.