The College Review from Atchison, Kansas • 4

'4 THE COLLEGE REVIEW. The COLLEGE REVIEW Published Monthly BY COONROD SMITH. for catalogue and general particulars. Should there be any who do not wish to wait for the January term, they may enter in December with equal advantage. A.

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Howe's celebrated novel, "The Story of a Country Town." One quarter gross Coonrod Smith's finest pens. The Rkvikw will also be offered without premiums in connection with the following publications at the prices named. College Review and Penman's Art Journal (monthly) one year, $1.00. College Review and Scott-Browne's Weekly Shorthand Magazine, one year, $1.00. These are regular prices for above named publications alone.

Subscriptions must be paid in advance. Money may be remitted by stamps, postal note or post-ollice order. Every student, past and present, should support The College Review. The subscription is only fifty cents a year with premium. Last year the question of the adoption of a school pin or badge was pretty generally discussed, but nothing was really done toward securing them.

We are now, however, able to report something definite. After considerable negotiation with different jewelers we have secured handsome monogram pins for each school. Those for the Lawrence school contain the monogram L. B. those for the Atchison school are the same except the let ters which, of course, are A.

B. C. These pins are solid gold and can be furnished at $1.50 each, a very low price. If the student desires, a stick and chain, also solid gold, may be ordered with the pin for 75 cents extra. The stick will show the year '92 or '93 as the case may be.

These pins, either with or without the sticks and chains, are very handsome pieces of jewelry and will be greatly prized by all the students. Atchison Business College. who is making a tour of the West. She wrote one hundred and seven per minute on the Caligraph from miscellaneous dictation, and reached the remarkable speed of one hundred and seventy-four words per minute upon a repeated without excepting in spacing, The Atchison Business College football team have taken advantage of the beautiful weather to play several practice games. The following gives the distribution of forces W.

D. Wilson, manager H. Campbell, center rush; Louis Schletzbaum, right guard C- L. Mowbray, left guard. H.

S. Swanson, left end; John Graham, right end; B. A. Mc-Gaugh, left tackle T. H.

Watson, right tackle; W. T. Snider, quarter back; Roy Krebs, left half back; W. D. Wilson, right half back; Howard Bailey, full back Chas.

Houck, Clarence Galbreath, Henry Jacobs and B. Berntsen, subs. A large number of the A. B. C.

have shown their appreciation of high class entertainment, by securing tickets for the' Y. M. C. A. course of lectures Money thus placed is an investment and not an expenditure, as many seem to sup pose.

The lectures of such men as Rev. Robt. Nourse, Hon. Samuel Phelps Leland. Col.

L. F. Cope-land, and Hon. Geo. R.

Wendling, contain the best thought of the most advanced minds of the age, and their delivery represents the highest type of American oratory. They are therefore a powerful factor among the educational forces of our commonwealth, for, in addition to the knowledge obtained, the student is cultivating a taste for entertainment and diversion which cannot be otherwise than refining and elevating. The Atchison Business College Literary Society organized a month ago, with the following officers Frank Oliphant, pres. S. L.

Randolph, vice-pres. Lizzie Brickell, sec. May Wachtel, asst. sec; Nannie Holmes, George H. Smies, marshal.

The following is the programme advertised for our next meeting, Saturday, December 3 Duet, Jeannette Davies and Ida Hunter recitation, Pearl Riggs reading, Grant Tedrow; declamation, Jennie Tait essay, Josie Wolfe recitation, J. T. Campbell recitation, Maud Starr; music (guitar), Paul Harder. Recess Duet, Roy Kelsey and Frank Oliphant recitation, Maud Whitaker reading, C. L.

Mowbray declamation, Thomas Watson music, Annie Fusselman paper, Grace Pendery and M. C. Palmer. Debate, L. H.

Kelsey, Hugh Hutton J. F. Oliphant, Chas. Houck. Elwyn Blair, one of our former students, who has been attending Racine College, Racine, for two years, has begun the study of shorthand.

Misses Kate Braun, of Doniphan, and Louise Miller, of the Byram hotel, have taken up the thread of the business course where it snapped last spring for the summer vacation. H. M. Ernst, the. artistic decorator who furnishes the signs for both our schools, is keeping one of the neatest sets of books in the evening school.

John G. Hutton, of Pawnee City, is the latest enrollment for the business course. He is a brother of Hugh, and has already taken first place in a number of his classes. Fred Guy, who lately left the shorthand class to take a position with the Santa Fe road at Topeka, spent last Sunday in Atchison. He already reports an advance of salary.

Over thirty pupils are now taking instruction upon the typewriter, and it has again become necessary to add to the number of machines in order to accommodate the rapidly growing department. Misses Holmes, Martin, Whita-ker, Fusselman and Baker are now taking business letters, and with persistent and earnest effort, will become, first-class stenographers. At the recent grammar examination the following named pupils passed Maud Starr, 94 Hermie Buck, 94 Mr. Schletzbaum, 89 Jennie Mackey, 86 Jennie Tait, 83; Neva Martin, 83. Miss Nannie Holmes was the first young lady student to order a badge, Ed.

Peirce the first among the young men. A large number have been purchased, and a third order given the manufacturers. Messrs. Emslie, Garnett, Tedrow, Bourke and Wilson may be found almost any time during the day seated around one desk, practicing short-band. They understand what is needed to make good stenographers, and their good class record is the result of such earnest work.

Mr. M. C. Palmer's ambition is to become a lightning stenographer. With plenty of practice, together with the perseverance which he already possesses, there is nothing to hinder him from becoming such.

Geo. Smies, Kibbee Fansler and Louis Schletzbaum are at present leaders in the commercial class but quite a number in the class are aspirants for the honors which these young men bear so meekly. Mr. Frietley will soon have completed the text-book of phonography and be ready to join a dictation class. Being Assistant Secretary of the Y.

M. C. his time is limited, but he is making very good progress, and certainly understands as he goes. Our students enjoyed a treat in the exhibition of expert typewriting given by Miss Parker, of Hartford, The speed craze is sure to strike a shorthand pupil sooner or later, when he throws down the bars, leaps the bounds of self-restraint, ignores the teacher's advice, and plunges ahead over bogs and fens, through thicket and dell, like mad. Regardless of his own interest, he plunges ahead until he falls into the pitfall of despondency, and, unless he has at this stage learned the folly of his ways, and is willing to yield himself implicitly to the control and direction of his teacher, he will be a failure.

Nowhere else in this section of country can our young people find such peculiar advantages as are to be found in the Lawrence and Atchison Business Colleges. In addition to the ordinary business college course, our pupils get the benefit of an extended course in joint business practice between our two colleges. An actual business is carried on between the two points, conducted by the pupils, who thus learn all the details of commerce by really performing them. This work is participated in by students of both the business and shorthand departments, and brings into fullest play the pupil's knowledge of bookkeeping, business law and customs, letter writing, etc. It is the most advanced as well as practical feature of business training yet devised.

Mr. L. F. Akers now recites with the evening class. Examinations in civil government and commercial law are now in progress.

The A. B. C. personals are crowded out to make room for Mr. Thompson's address and i eunion matter.

Ed. Snyder and Ollie Young, of Mt. Pleasant, gave us a recent call. Ed. will return to school January 1st.

Misses Bereman, Ritner and Buck read shorthand almost as easily as print. They are also gaining in speed and accuracy of forms. Miss Emma Ritner has a position already secured as stenographer for a large insurance agency at Waterloo, Iowa. Elwyn Blair was the one hundred and sixteenth pupil to add his name to our register since September 1st. Miss May Francis is probably the best reader of shorthand in the school.

May will be a success in shorthand work. Katie Smith has closed her school work to accept a position as office assistant for the Singer Sewing Machine City. Laura Winzenried, having concluded her duties at the county treasurer's office, has resumed her shorthand study. Harvey Spalding has been compelled to remain at home for some weeks on account of sickness. He is now convalescent.

Anna Elliott, Cora Agnew, and Jennie Mackey have finished the first division of theory and faced the difficulties of the dreaded examination 1. Winter term begins Tuesday, January 3rd. Election is over, and crops will soon be gathered, so that hundreds of young men will find their best opportunities for schooling come with the new year. The fall term, now nearly closed, has been a very successful one, and the winter term, with its influx of new students, new classes, joint business practice, will no doubt be even more successful. All who are contemplating a business college course in the near future should either call and visit us or write OF YORE.

ATCHISON BUSINESS COLLEGE. May Wachtel is visiting relatives in Chicago..