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Show PAGE 44 WEBER ACADEMY speed as he progresses, takes more difficult matter, including correspondence of great variety, legal forms, circulars, speeches, etc., transcripts of the dictation being made on the typewriter. A course in actual office training is introduced, the student performing the various duties found in the daily business routine of an office. Five hours per week throughout the year. Typewriting a and b.Each student is taught the use of the machine and its different parts, and is required to clean and oil his own machine from the first day he starts. Speed, accuracy and neatness are the qualifications every student is required to work for; no erasing is allowed, and each lesson must receive the teacher's approval before the student goes to another lesson. He is allowed to go from one lesson to another as rapidly as he is able. The touch sysetm is used exclusively. Five hours per week throughout the year. Typewriting c and d.For advanced students writing from copy and dictation for the acquirement of a high rate of speed is practiced. Thorough drill is given in writing legal documents, telegrams, cablegrams, invoices, freight bills, statements; also in billing, manifolding, mimeographing, etc. Five hours per week throughout the year. Commercial Law.This course comprises a study of those matters of law that have constant application to business lifecontracts, negotiable instruments, liens, guaranty and suretyship, interest and usury, sale of personal and real property, warranty, bailment, agency, partnership, joint stock companies and corporations, insurance, common carriers, attachment, stoppage in transit, real estate, banking, taxes, distribution after death, property rights, etc. Text: Commercial Law, by Gano. Five hours per week during the first semester. WEBER ACADEMY PAGE 45 Political Economy. This course consists of a study of the underlying principles governing production, consumption, exchange and distribution of wealth. The relation of capital and labor and other present-day economic problems are discussed with some emphasis upon industrial and political ethics. Text: Introduction to the Study of Economics, Bullock. Five hours per week during the second semester. Domestic Arts. Domestic Arts a.Students are taught the fundamental principles of hand and machine sewing. Practice is given in the drafting of apron and underwear patterns; and in the use and care of machines. Each student makes a sewing bag, aprons and a suit of underwear. Three two-hour periods a week during the first semester. Domestic Arts b.The making of underwear and a plain wash dress. Three two-hour periods a week during the second semester. Domestic Arts c.The study of textiles, the making and use of patterns and a winter dress comprise the work of this course. Three two-hour periods a week during the first semester. Domestic Arts d.The hemming and monograming of table linen, the making of fine lingerie and summer dresses. Three two-hour periods a week during the second semester. Domestic Arts e.Drafting and advanced dressmaking, including winter and party dresses. Two three-hour periods a week during the first semester. |