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Whenever possible, these have been omitted from filming/ 11 se peut que certaines pages blanches etjoutAes lors d'une restauration apparaissent dans lc« texta. mais. lorsque cela itait possible, ces pages t-^'ont pas M filmAes. L'Institut a microfilm^ le meilleur exemplaire qu'il lui a atC possibie de se procurer. Las details de cet axemplaire qui sont peut-4i til ' ''--ii!!! '■ ■'' '' ''^-"^ ''^"•""''"•^ Where to Attend School IfOIt PROPITJIBLB BDBCJ1T10J1. jSL.1? TBIBl No. 33 O'Connor St, (POUNDED 1869.) JOHN KEITH, - Principal, OTTAWA, ONT. ^j|yjy{jj|j^|j|[jjy||^^^ j|jg |jjg||||^^^ llllh..lllllllMUll( jMll|ljl^^ To Our Patrons and the Public : Having purchased Mr. C. H. McCargar's interest in the National Business College here, a tew words from us may be in order at this time. The National Business College stands among the first schools in the Dominion, and is ever increasing its efficiency as a means of preparing yoting gentlemen and ladies for the Business World. It sliall be our aim to make this institution second to none as a school for acquiring a thorough, practical, business education. The staff are all experienced and practical teachers. The change in principalship affects m no way the plan of teaching, which has been so very satisfactory in the past, as I continue to teach the same subjects as heretofore. I have had a long and successful career as a teacher, am a graduate of the Canada Business College of Hamilton, the leading commerc 1 school of the west, and have had a few years' experience as a practical book-keeper. The National Business College, Ottawa, will be known hereafter as "The Ottawa Business College" (formerly National Business College), Ottawa, We are putting all our energies into the work of the College, and we feel certain of such a hearty response from the public as will make the Business College of the Capital the leading commercial school of the Dominion. Shorthand and Typewriting. Space will not permit much being said upon this subject. We have three rooms devoted exclusively to Shorthand and Typewriting, which will no doubt be iifficient to show that we pay special attention to iiese subjects. We have Remington, Caligraph and Smith-Premier typewriters in constant u^ for the benefit of our students. W^hen our students are sufficiently advanced to take dictation, we give them practice in office wok. We require them to take from dictation our coi despond- ence, in shorthand^ and transcribe the letters on the typewriter. "We aim to qualify our students to do office work in a manner that will meet with the approbation of business men. We frequently have applications from business men tor competent stenographers and typewriters. Any one taking our course and obtaining our diploma will be qualified to take a good position. There is a special demand for competent stenographers who can write both English and French. To Public Schooi Teachers. Are you perfectly satisfied with the position you hold, or do you contemplate changing your vocation at some future time ? To those who think of trying some other calling, we would say there is no way in which the average public school teacher c n make the change at less expense than by entering a good, com- mercial school, taking a thorough business course, and becoming a competent stenographer and type writer. The. English education you already possess, in connection with a thorough business education and skill in writing shorthand and using the typewriter, will place you in a position to secure a good situation and fill it with credit to yourself and satisfaction to your employer The Oitaiva Business College (formerly National Business College), Ottawa, is just the school you should attend to secure an educatior that will qualify you for bookkeeper, amanuensis . teacher in com- mercial college. Call on us or write to us before entering any other college. In no institution of its kind in Canada is more atterition paid to where the students are taught a clean, legible, rapid business hand, which always possesses commercial value ; therefore is a most important element in a commercial training. In applying for employment, young men or women SS5^pSS|pmSS^iSij^ J^it-i *i ^ fri > )y^.^^'AVV ■^^^^^ llliiiiiillliiiiiillhumrttt ui)|lliii;iillilii^illldi|^^ ness men rs. Any loma will here is a who can ition you vocation of trying lO way in make the )od. com- s course, ind type possess, ition and pewriter, situation "action to National ;hool you ill qualify in com- iny other IS more / ble, rapid mmercial training, ir women 4 who possess a good business handwriting always receive the preference. In business, writing is usually accepted as an index to the educational attainments. is also taken up ; and to enable those who have a taste for art, we have organized a new class for and while it forms no part of a business education, we are in a position to instruct in any kind of woik pertaining to the pen, even portraiture. Commercial Calculation. Every occupation in life requires a knowledge oi 6gures, and especially is this true with the business man with whom correctness and rapidity in com- mercial calculations are wholly indispensable. To enable our students to attain the highest possible excellence in this department of their course, every student niay receive from one to two hours in thorough practical instruction and drill in business arithmetic and rapid calculations ; for what is a book-keeper without arithmetic ? Our students are made familiar with the measurements of lumber in many sha^ies,' lands, &c., Commission, Insurance, Taxes, Stocks and Bonds, Exchange, Partial Payments, Equating and Averaging of Accounts, and, in fact, all the calculations that may be of utility in the office, on the market, on the farm, or in any manufacturing shop. Rook-ke«|»lnjK> Under this subject we not only teach the student the many methods of keeping books by single and double entry, but the student is required to make out Notes, Drafts, Cheques, Bills of Exchange, Accounts, Orders, Due Bills, Receipts, &c., &c., order his goodsy buy drafts, discount notes — in fact, perform the actual work of the business man in the various kinds' of iiusiness, together with his dealing with the "College Bank" and office work. Without such a drill, whether in the Ottawa Business College, or some other institution, no young man or woman can go out into the world and feel that they know business or can manage a business siiccessfully. The Best School* When a decision is reached that it is desirous of securing a good business education, the next thing is to select The Best School. This we can under- stand to be a very difficult task, when reliable personal testimony is not available, especially when confronted with the statement in each of a dozen or more catalogues of different schools that "Our school is positively the best," while associated with this claim is usually an insinuation that all other colleges arc- frauds. We dislike this spirit of bombast and meanness, and while we cannot claim superiority over all others, tor want pf knowledge of the work and management of several schools, our familiarity with the courses given SSMS^SfljT'^ip^p^rt^ tfhfi'll''"""''""'"''""""''' '*'' ' ' ''' ''" '''iillllli i'ill lllirill'linil ll'liiiill llliii'lllllfiillllliiiiilllliiiillh ''"'■'illlliiiHlill'iiilllllii'i^'K '"'' 'I ''Ii"""''n.i.il il in many of our Canadian colleges enables us to claim equality with the best of them, and while we labor to do our work honestly and well, and to advance the interests of our patrons in every possible way, we are free to admit that we believe other schools do the Same. While our college is one of the oldest and largest in Canada, our course is abreast of the times, and our staff is composed of those of experience and activity, neither children nor those of feeble age, and while the younger schools must necessarily spend a grer t deal o*" time and energy in planning how to make themselves known, we are known, and are thus in a position to attend to the necessities of our students in receiving a thorough training in either the business or shorthand department. Premises. We have refrained from calling to our aid the artist and engraver, through whose skill the small, dingy, ill-furnished room is so easily transformed on paper into elegant apartments, supplied with all the latest equipments of modern counting-houses and offices, and invariably filled with students. To the unini- tiated these "Palaces" appear very attractive, but we can assure you that, alas, in too many cases, it would be almost, if not utterly, impossible to recognize the apartments thus represented, if you were permitted to inspect them. Instead of alluring patrons with such a b^itj we desire to state plainly that we have prepared olir premises to suit our ourselves, for our own use ; tl^y are perhaps the largest of any business college in Canada ; light, airy, steam heating, electric lighting, and contain from 75 to ico thousand cubic feet of air. We are prepared to compare our rooms with those of any other purely business college in Canada. And why should we not have " The Best'" rooms, situated at the Capital of Canada, as we are ? Oommercial Lamr. Commercial Law has grown to be a most important study, and constitutes a proper part of a Commercial Course. It is not expected that any student' will become proficient in the study or acquire a profes- sional knowledge of law ; but the amo information that can be obtained in the is of great use in the ordinary affairs o been said that " he who is his own law for a client," but a greater fool is he \ know what can be readily learned of tl trade whiih have become law. That our law may be as practical work Mr. Geo. McLaurin, B.A,, LL one of the leading commercial lawyei has charge of the subject and gives regu to the students on all that pertains 1 commercial law. In very few colleges many depending upon their own veiy ledge, which was obtained perhaps out or twelve years ago, and which may no thus misleading the student anc^ bemg \ law at all. Correspondence and 8f Perhaps in no business college in Am attention given to these subjects than a Business College, Ottawa (formerly Nat College). These have become subj( instruction in both the Business ar Departments. In these the student is 1 write every imaginable 1 kind of busii punctuate, paragraph, spell, the use of etc. , and what book-keeper can be pro] them ? In selecting a college see that speci-< given to them. ^ Oram mar is another subject much neglected in business college, and in the majority of no Grammar is tiught. With this, as i ence and spelling, when a student can j post he is by no means a competent bo< when a stenographer can take down fro; virords a minute and read them back, means a competent stenographer. He n correspondent, and to be that he must write a good letter as to spelling, grami tion, paragraphing, etc., etc. ^^^pmiffiSjmjpnraf|[{^^ J!^!'"''' '"■■""' 'I'""'"''"-"'' ll lln..iHllt„..illlu, 3ge of law ; but the amount of general at can be obtained in the course pursued in the ordinary affairs of life. It has ** he who is his own lawyer has a fool 3ut a greater fool is he who refuses to in be readily learned of the customs of ive become law. iw may be as practical as the other o. McLaurin, B.A,, LL.B., Barrister, ading commercial lawyers of our city, the subject and gives regular instruction ts on all that pertains to business or w. In very few colleges is this done, ng upon their own veiy limited know- vas obtained perhaps out of a book ten s ago, and which may not be law now, g the student anci being worse than no pondence and Spellini;. lo business college in America is more I to these subjects than at the Ottawa ge, Ottawa (formerly National Business lese have become subjects of daily both the Business and Shorthand In these the student is taught how to naginable 1 kind of business letter, to agraph, spell, the use of capitals, etc., : book-keeper can be proficient without a college see that special attention is Oram mar ijject much neglected in the average e, and in the majority of cases little or » taught. With this, as in correspond- ng, when a student can journalize and lo means a competent book-keeper ; or rapher can take down from lOO to 125 te and read them back, he is by no itent stenographer. He must be a good and to be that he must know how to :tter as to spelling, grammar, punctua- ting, etc., etc. |ni"ii||inniii||ii'"ii|||iniiii||in'ni|lii"in|n""i|II"""1|n"^i||I'"'''5|l''"'n] ilbiillllliiiillllliiiillllliiiillllliiiillllliiiiilllliir'^^^ ' ' "''" Practical Business Education. The acquirement of a Business Education is the best investment a young man can make, because it can never be taken away and the longer it is used the more valuable it becomes and the greater the income it produces. To secure it involves so limited an expense as to be within the reach of all, and no young man or woman can well afford to be without it. Our aim is to supply a course of sych training, second to none, and with our present staff, and advantages peculiar to our situation, we think we hit the mark. Our College is situated at the Capital, where students may attend the parliamentary debates free, during Session, which they cannot do in any other city in Canada. Teacliers. That we may surpass all previous years' results, we have secured a specialist in each department, and consequently in no school in Canada can better work be done than in the Ottawa Business College, Ottawa (formerly National Business College). Send for our catalogue, in which you will find the names of our old teachers, new ones being substituted in several cases. Note. — Any person sending us the names and addresses of a dozen young men or women who may in the near future attend a Business College will receive free one half dozen of McCar^at's " College Pen." Finale. — After perusing the facts herein pre- sented, if you are satisfied that we are honest in our claims and deserving of year patronage, please write us, if you are interested, for our catalogue or any other information you may desire, and they will be most cheerfully given ; or if you are not interested yourself we will consider it a favour if you will kindly send us the names and addresses of any of your acquaintances who may be interested. Address JOHN KEITH, Principal, Ottawa, Ont. |jjiSii}pfln5ip'Hip*n^^ .■..■i.;-:4;'i3.? ai':aL::.,