The New Education (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, July 15, 1910 Page: 1 of 4
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Business Training Number
The New Education
STILLWATER, OKLAHOMA, JULY 15, 1910 No. 15
A WORD TO YOUNG MEN
A WORD TO YOUNG
When financial
those who have studied to get
they are.
men who can do things.
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THE PRACTICAL VALUE OF
BOOKKEEPING
What we call initiative in a
business man is called skill in a
great surgeon. It is knowing the
next move and making it at the
right moment.
PANORAMIC VIEW OF A. & M. COLLEGE CAMPUS
dinary courses of study irksome and tedious have
found the bookkeeping course most beneficial. It
has a direct bearing upon actual life with much
variety and little of the monotony of school room
drudgery. It is to the young man, specific and
practical. These qualities inspire interest and
enthusiasm in young men who have become de-
moralized in regard to their education.
In this great age of commercialism, a knowl-
edge of bookkeeping is valuable in every line of
work. Every successful business or professional
man will find bookkeeping a valuable aid to him
in connection with his business or profession all
through life. Moreover, it is a very valuable
stepping stone to an independent business. For
instance, the writer has taught bookkeeping to
several young men who have gone into banks as
bookkeepers, and have later been given executive
positions that pay them better salaries than
their “dere teacher” now receives as head of a
commercial department. The old story of the
young man who kept the books for a limited
time, married the “old man’s daughter” and be-
came one of the firm has happened in the ex-
perience of us all.
But is bookkeeping as a profession a profitable
one? Are high salaries paid for bookkeepers?
These are common questions, and the writer
wants to answer them with an experience that he
had only last week. The President of the Col-
lege received a letter from an individual of wealth
asking for a man of some maturity to take
charge of his bookkeeping work. The young
man in this case would be more than a book-
keeper. A part of his duties were to be adminis-
trative as well as clerical. In regard to the sal-
ary, the prospective employer in this case says
significantly, “Find the man—I’ll fix the salary”.
R. A. COVERDALE.
Ability in nine-tenths of the cases is developed,
not born. Some men are developed beyond the
stage of others because they have had the appli-
cation to make themselves do it. Men who pos-
sess ability are
where
If you anticipate taking a business course, we
think you will be more than pleased with A. & M.
for these reasons. The College offers everything
that the business colleges of today are offering,
and more. Much more. A cursory reading of
this issue will prove it.
The high ideals of college life are constantly
before the students of the Business Department.
Hundreds of young men imbued with the deter-
mination to reach the “top of the ladder” fill the
class rooms of all departments of the institution.
Their zeal is contagious. It permeates every
side of our work. Business graduates secure
good positions and the spirit of the A. & M. Col-
lege goes with them.
When selecting a school for a high-grade com-
mercial training, a young man must look beyond
the few months spent in a business course to the
next step in his education which will help him to
become an employer instead of an employe.
Study the spirit in which an institution works
and the ideals for which it stands. The spirit
and ideals of the A. & M. College inspire young
men with the enthusiasm and fearlessness which
carry them to success over great difficulties.
WOMEN
cry is for
blithering idiot can be waited on, but «l
takes intelligence and skill to serve.
A Group of Business Students on Central Hall Steps, A. & M. College
Every woman should be able to earn her own
living and provide for others if necessary. There
are just as many opportunities in business for
women as there are for men. When financial
difficulties arise or misfortune overtakes the
breadwinner of the family, the woman who has
had a special training will not be dependent upon
relatives or charity. Independence develops self-
respect. A useful independence comes from the
ability to do practical things for which the com-
munity is willing to pay.
The attendance in the Business Department
consists of about an equal number of young men
and women generally. The regular hours and
congenial work combined with the enthusiasm
of faculty and students, are conducive to good
health, although the day’s work is continuous
from 8:oo to 12:30, and from 1:30 to 3:30.
Many women enter who have not at-
tended school for a number of years. They pro-
gress according to their ability and receive indi-
vidual instruction when neces-
sary. There is no embarrassment
caused by reciting before classes
since all are mature students
(having attained the age of 18
years at least) and all having had
a good common or high school
training. Unlike mathematics or
Latin, there are no prerequisites
for shorthand or typewriting. All
start at the beginning.
Those who come with some
knowledge of stenography are
cither given individual instruc-
tion, or are placed in a class
with others of like training.
Lastly, a thorough business
training is just as necessary for
properly conducting the modern
home as it is for the well-regu-
lated business office.
A successful business man was asked, “Tell me
the secret of your success”. To which he replied,
“I always kept books. I always knew which
branch of my work made money, and which lost—
and how much each branch made or lost.” And
this is probably the experience of a large number
of successful men.
While keeping accounts is not a necessary ele-
ment of success, it is certainly a valuable one. It
is a well known fact that very few farmers keep
systematic accounts with farm products, and yet
it is true that those farmers who have done so
have found that it pays. A farmer should be able
to keep accurate and systematic accounts with all
the industries of the farm. For if he does not, he
cannot well know the cost of the product, and
without knowing the cost, it is difficult in some
cases to know at what price he must sell in order
to make a profit. At any rate, he sells an article
with more intelligence when he knows the cost.
A millionaire stockman out in Texas was made
wealthy largely on account of his ability as a
bookkeeper. As a young man he kept books for
ten years, when he quit and moved to the \arnl-
The habit of keeping books had so fixed itself
upon him that he kept it up on the farm. After
several years of experimenting during which time
he kept accounts with every industry, continual y
dropping those lines that had not paid sufficiently
for the time, trouble and investment, he discov-
ered that hogs made more money than any other
line. Consequently he went into hog raising on
a large scale. He is today one of the most suc-
cessful men in the great Southwest.
Bookkeeping is of further practical value in
that it is a splendid disciplinary subject. Book-
keeping means the recording of business trans-
actions in a systematic and accurate manner, lhe
records are called accounts. Three prime factors
figure in these accounts—namely, English, Pen-
manship and Arithmetic. Bookkeeping is appli-
cation pure and simple. These three factors are
pre-requisite. Without any of these, books can-
not be kept. Thus the person who is inclined to
be careless will receive a thorough drill in doing
things with system, order and neatness. Since
each transaction represents a money considera-
tion, the student must write the work up care-
fully and definitely. If by chance
he makes an error in his work,
he has an interesting problem in-
deed. And it does him good to
make a mistake, provided he is
compelled to find it. A mistake
made in a minute, that it takes
two hours to locate, tends to
make the student careful. As a
teacher of bookkeeping, I like to
think that two hours of con-
scientious and intelligent search
for an error in the “books” is
worth about as much to the aver-
age young man in a disciplinary
way as an equal amount of time
spent in translating a chapter of
Caesar’s commentaries. More
over, he himself will generally
see more practical value in it
than in the Latin and on that
account works at it because
wants to.
And bookkeeping is always
teresting to the young man. On
account of this, many boys who
have become discouraged in
school and who have found or-
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Connell, J. H. The New Education (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, July 15, 1910, periodical, July 15, 1910; Stillwater, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1598579/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.