College Advertisement (Commercial College)
A garbled advertisement for a commercial college urging Southern young men to get a practical business education, framed in the era's regional rivalry rhetoric.
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The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · April 17, 1870 · Page 2
1 min read[…] The Oldest, and Most Extensive and Successful Commercial College in the United States. There is a Full Faculty of Gentlemen who wish a Business Education. Students can enter in any or all the Departments of the College at any time. When classes of three or more enter at the same time in the same place, ten per cent. reduction will be made. Board and Lodging per month.
Book-keeping, Penmanship, Mathematics, English, French, Spanish, German, Phonography, etc., are taught as used [...] so that each student can at once take charge of a set of Books. An education that enables the student to earn $1000, $2000, or $3000 per annum, is the best fortune parents can give their sons. The South must now educate ALL her sons PRACTICALLY, or they will forever be the slaves of the North.
N. B.--Young men, take notice that, so far as known, every one of the numerous Graduates of this College, for the past thirty-seven years, is now in profitable business. After 37 years of success, this College requires no further inducement than the fact that SEVERAL THOUSAND of its Graduates are in prosperous business in this City and over the [...].
[...] EIFOS DOLBHAR, President.
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