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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1916
Page
6
A formal critique argues La Crosse High School business courses are inferior to private programs like Wisconsin Business University. It cites Americana Encyclopedia and employment records, urging parents to choose WBU for faster, cheaper, first class training.
The Gregg School in Chicago and La Crosse High School promote Gregg shorthand and a four year commercial program. They detail course hours in bookkeeping writing shorthand and commercial law, note high costs primarily from food and clothing, and claim the WBU certifies teachers locally in Northwest.
An historic letter sequence extols the Wisconsin Business University in La Crosse as an accredited, well regarded institution with strong faculty and alumni success. It highlights credit transfers to major universities and cites Arthur G. Rumpf rising to general secretary at Studebaker, plus letters lauding training quality and job placement.
Efficiency is taught at the WBU with instructor D. S. Greig leading popular lectures. Knox, formerly NCR sales manager, may join for a lecture series. The program covers studying, working, success, and personal development emphasizing clean living and character.
The H M Rowe Publishing Co will award WBU graduates a Certificate of Efficiency. The certificate has helped many secure high grade positions. Our bookkeeping and accounting system is endorsed by the Association of Chartered Accountants of the United States and is simple enough for an eighth grade student to complete.
On November 6 five states dispatched students to the school. Names and towns include Nicholas Koch Rygate Montana Ernest Raddatz Dodge Center Minnesota Charles Gaunitz Lansing Iowa Marjorie Huey Downsville Wisconsin and Matt W Schmidt Salem South Dakota. Nearly twenty other recruits arrive in early November from across the Northwest seeking an education the school calls the BEST and notes travel distance is not a barrier.
Carson T. Lawrence received the Palmer Diploma for fine writing from the New York Office of Palmer Penmanship after completing the regular business course and standard instruction.
North Dakota's nonpartisan league controls the legislature and has barred lobbyists from the capital by seizing the Northwestern hotel and denying rooms to all except league members during the session in Bismarck.
La Crosse Minnesota notices holiday visits and local events. Theodore Sunde drove to Houston to see daughter Clarissa. Mrs. Irving Harris, Papenfuss, and many ridge residents attended Christmas services at Dakota. School district 73 closed for two weeks. A humorous anecdote about an archdeacon and a parishioner ends the column.
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