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Additional Schools.

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is found exceedingly beneficial, and when it is finished the student is thoroughly posted, for the test of knowledge is the act of teaching. The full course of the School is as follows:

FIRST YEAR.

1. Theoretical Book-keeping in Single and Double Entry, theory of mer. cantile accounts, the Principal books and auxiliaries, Cash Book, Bill Book, Invoice Book and Sales Book, Notes, Drafts and Checks ; Penmanship and Letter-writing ; British Authors ; Chemistry or French. 2. Actual Business, Retail and Wholesale, books kept by Single Entry, with and without Invoice Book and Sales Book, changed to Double Entry and continued by various methods Bills, Receipts, Notes, Drafts, Checks, and Accounts Current ; Commercial Calculations ; American Authors; Drawing or French. 3. Actual Business, Agency, Commission and Shipping, Importing and Jobbing, Invoice Book, Domestic and Foreign, Sales Book, Receiving Book, Commission Sales Book, Business Correspondence, Invoices, Account Sales, Bills of Exchange ; Rhetoric; Drawing or French.

SECOND YEAR.

1. Theoretical Banking and practice in teaching bookkeeping ; German, English Classics or Physiology ; History of Civilization or French. 2. Banking by Theory and Practice ; German ; Constitutional History. 3. Actual Banking; Commercial Law and Forms of Legal Paper; German ; Political Economy.

SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN.

UNDER CHARGE OF PROFESSOR PETER BAUMGRAS.

This School is to subserve a two-fold purpose. 1. It affords to the students of the several colleges the opportunity to acquire such a knowledge of free-hand drawing as their chosen course may require. 2. It offers to such as have a talent or taste for art, the best facilities for pursuing studies in industrial designing or other branches of fine art. Schools of Design, in Europe and in this country, have been found important aids to the higher manufactures, adding to the beauty of fabrics and to the skill and taste of workmen. The increased interest in the decorative arts and in the man-