Tennessee Military Institute - Radiogram Yearbook (Sweetwater, TN)

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METALLU RGY Our school is situated in a section rich in mineral deposits of many varieties. In recent years, many hundreds of samples have been brought to our laboratories for analysis from the area within seventy-five miles of the school. This has made it possible to introduce our more advanced pupils to the methods followed in testing ores and extracting valuable minerals. IV. Preparatory Commercial Courses Discussion on pages sixteen and seventeen of this catalog explains our reasons for oiering training in fundamental business subjects. Not all boys profit from college attendance. For boys who will not attend college, we consider adequate training for business important and desirable. This work is no experiment with us, as it has been carried on here for more than twenty years. With the business training they have received in T. M. I., hundreds of young men have become successful in business, many of them connected with nationally known concerns. In general, we do not start pupils on business courses until they have completed our First Year, or Ninth Grade, course fLatin usually omittedj. Beginning with the Sophomore Year, business courses are offered sufficient to use all the time of pupils not necessary in the required studies in English and Algebra. English is required throughout the course, but no regular Mathe- matics courses are required of Commercial pupils above the sophomore year. As will be seen from the brief outline of courses on page 35, the several business courses offered are of a very practical sort and the pupil readily begins to see the relation of such courses to lines of business with which he is acquainted or which he desires to take up. In either case, his interest is natural and better scholastic accomplishments almost immediately result. Since it frequently happens that boys do not reach a decision as to choice between business and professional life, or between preparation for business or for college by the beginning of the tenth grade, we have planned the course of study in this department so as to permit entering upon it in either the tenth, eleventh, or twelfth grades. In cases where the decision is made late in the high school course, we urge the student to combine the later courses of our Preparatory Commercial Course with the foundation courses of our Advanced Business Administration Course so as to guarantee a thorough mastery of the fundamentals of business. In fact, quite a good many of the graduates of our Preparatory Commercial Course of their own volition choose to return for one or more years in our Advanced Business Course fof Junior College gradel. Puge Forty-Se neu

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V. Advanced Courses in Business Administration I While many graduates of our Preparatory Commercial Course have suc- ceeded in business, it is our belief that these same men would have attained greater success, would have been promoted more rapidly and would have re- ceived larger compensations for their work if they had devoted more time to preparation for their special lines of work. Consequently, in 1930 we start- ed our work in Advanced Business Administration. At the outset, we required a high school diploma for admission to these courses. After two years we changed this plan to permit the admission to these courses of pupils of good ability who had completed three years of high school work. Our Advanced Business work divides itself into two main divisions, in one of which the emphasis is kept on Accounting and Finance, while in the other the purpose is to prepare the pupil for general business administration and the courses therefore emphasize Selling and Sales Management, Adver- tising, Banking and Credit, Business Law, etc. The outline of these courses of study will be found on page 35. These courses are designed for those of our own graduates and the graduates of public high schools who desire a thorough preparation for the requirements of business but who prefer to secure this without having to put in the four years required in the Schools of Commerce of state and other uni- versities. .Our course in Accounting is intended to prepare graduates for work as accountants and auditors. It is well known that this type of work brings auditors and accountants in touch with promising business opportunities into which many go from their work as accountants. Thus their training in school leads to employment that makes them self-sustaining and this in turn leads into more lucrative business connections. The training in Advertising, Salesmanship and general Business Admin- istration is designed for those to whom the attention to accuracy and detail essential in an accountant would be irksome but who want to connect them- selves with the promotive side of business. During the first half-year of our course, Accounting is required of all advanced business students. During this period, it is possible to determine into which of the two major divisions of training each pupil shoul-d go for his further work. Page Forty-Eight