A study of economics gives these future secretaries a background in the An ability to manipulate office machines increases the overall amount economic foundations of the United States. of work accomplished and contributes to the ease and efficiency of office work. The ten-key punch is the fastest machine in the commercial office. It saves time because it records all the data, thus facilitating re-checking and correcting. It gathers, classifies and preserves data of all kinds and makes, uses and preserves records. Ingenious systems of record keeping and filing have been invented and scores of clever appliances and marvelous office machines are available. As a four-year program, Weber will train business teachers and offer majors in accounting and business administration, and will continue with a separate two-year program. Economics is a science which is concerned with the communal problems of economic life. How men acquire wealth and how they use it are important to economists; but their principal concern is with the intricate interrelations of the various wealth-obtaining and wealth-using activities and their relation to the community. Like every science, economics proceeds upon the assumption that there is some sort of order in the phenomena with which it deals. There is some measure of regularity and predictability in economic phenomena. The Business division offers classes in accounting, management, business law, salesmanship, advertising, business mathematics, statistics, calculators and personal finance. The Economics division teaches principles of economics, economic history of the United States, agricultural economics, economic geography, and current and industrial economic problems. Multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, percentages, and subtotals are easily figured on the Burroughs key - driven calculator, an efficient machine which adapts to any office use.