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Title: Catalogue of the instructors and students in the State Normal School at Salem
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: State Normal School at Salem
Subjects: State Normal School at Salem--Curricula Teachers colleges--Massachusetts--Students Teachers colleges--Massachusetts--Faculty
Publisher: Wm. Ives and Geo. W. Pease
Contributing Library: Salem State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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eping is the most important and usually the most at-tractive study of the distinctively commercial group. It is thesubject with which all the other subjects of this group are mostclosely correlated. The aim of the course is to give the studenta thorough understanding of the principles of bookkeeping aswell as of the various approved methods for teaching the same.Both class and individual methods of instruction are used.Business practice is also carried on as a part of the work of thiscourse. The advanced course in bookkeeping consists of the study ofthe theory of accounts and the fundamental principles of ac-counting. The methods of keeping the books of a modern bankand also those of some local industry are studied. Commercial Arithmetic. Miss Townsexd. Arithmetic occupies an important place in the curriculum ofa commercial department. It is very closely correlated withbookkeeping and helps to interpret other general commercialsubjects, such as commercial geography, transportation and
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oo 53 pa 04 47 finance. The aim of this course is to give the student anaccurate knowledge of arithmetic in its application to businesspractice. The theory and practice of teaching it according tomodern methods is also part of the work. Instruction and drill in the use of the adding machine aregiven in this course. Shorthand. Miss Smith — Miss Townsend. The work of the junior and middle years comprises the studyof the principles of Benn Pitman shorthand, accompanied andfollowed by drills for speed and accuracy on miscellaneous mat-ter. The acquiring of technical skill is the chief aim of the(nurse during these years. The professional side of the subjectis considered throughoutthe course, but it is emphasized in thesi aior year by the discussion of methods, by the study ofpedagogical works on the subject of shorthand, by the exam-ination and criticism of various text and drill books, by ob-servation in the Salem Commercial School, and by observationand practice teaching in the Salem

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