Denton Record-Chronicle from Denton, Texas • Page 102

Ml Denim I to" Its ead Those early-day schools in Denton provided a diverse offerihg fram a bevy of educational courses, along with some forceful efforts to attract students fc. 111111 Southwestern Christian College Has one of the best Business CourSCS of any school: Hxkkeepinp, Shorthand, Typewriting? You cannot afford- to miss its system and methods in the Teachers' Course. The Scientilic and Classic Courses are Twenty-one Distinct Courses of Study, Over '2(0 now in attendance. irioro, are yet to come. Cheap, Thorough, Practical, Permanent, Reliable.

You can enter at any time, and study any branch you may desire. for catalogue and particulars. president. i A Marketable Head trained'a hi Ivy. like purses, are valued for what they have in them.

The pay-roll man bids high for heads filled as in the 'A of training in Business College (no side show to literar.vscliooU and conducted ly a business mtin, on twsim-s priiK-ii'k'N. like a modern business otnce will you lor a ful vntrituvv into Business life. Such a-school is The Denton Business College need nreitunitbi-y work in grammar. ai-itlinuMic. s'lolliii" etc wive it to you in less lime thun ctin -tcvt ii wliei-e." H.

A. IVY, A. Pres. Denton, Texas. So you want to go to college in Denton.

Biit attending North Texas State University or Texas Woman's University is out of the question. TODAY YOUR options are exhausted. Seventy years ago you could have turned to the "poo-bah of institutions," the Southwestern Christian College (SCO. The private, church-related school opened Sept. 27, 1904, after acquiring the building, campus land and equipment used by the John B.

Denton during its few years of operation. For approximately four years SCX; provided a diverse offering' of educational courses at its campus at the corner of Denton and Gregg streets. The two-story SCC building contained a chapel, library and 'little rooms where the typewriter students practice(d)" jn addition to classrooms and administrative offices. The college was chartered by the State of Texas and governed by a 22- member board of regents. Board of- iicers were W.

B. Gano of Dallas, president; T. A. Wyther of Weatherford, vice president; and C. M.

Cockreli of Denton, secretary. Prof. A. G. Freed directed the daily operation of the school as president.

Providing instruction were Freed and 10 other teachers, including: A. G. Fleming, M. dean of the College of the Bible, philosophy, and Hebrew; H. Smith, M.

mathematics, sciences, German; May, B. Latin, history, sciences, shorthand, typewriting; J. L. German B. literature, French, Greek, English; A.

B. Barrett, geography, history ancient, medieval, modern; Blanche Degan, intermediate department; Elma Moore Rutledge, primary department; Ruby Hildebrand, music piano, violin, mandolin, guitar; Mrs. A. G. Freed; manager of library; and S.

C. Wail, librarian. Freed taught arithmetic, bookkeeping and metaphysics. IN V08 the SCC closed its doors and moved to Uiree years later the school merged with two other colleges to provide the foundation for the present Abilene Christian College. The City of Denton purchased the abandoned SCC building and seven- acre campus in 1911 to help alleviate a space squeeze being experienced by the public school system.

The facility served as the town's first separate high school building until it was torn down in 1917 and replaced by a new high school structure. That building stands today, in modified form, as the southernmost unit of the Congress Junior High School complex. But the future looked bright for the SCC in 1905 at least school officials and Alfred Gregory Lee were optimistic. "The terms of matriculation are exceedingly liberal. It is not only a coeducational institution, open to both sexes on the same terms, but a grand- father could carry his grandson there and they could both, grandfather and grandson, get in as students," Lee wrote in the April 25,1905, issue of the Denton County News.

"So to speak, it is the poo-bah of institutions; it is an institution of kindred against nescience; it is everything from a kindergarten to a university; from a conservatory of music to a naval academy, excluding the latter; from a military academy to a theological the former; from a common school to gymnasium; from an institution in which civil engineering and surveying to the commercial arts are taught and it is low, high and broad," Lee wrote, adding: "NOT LOW, however, in the vulgar sense, but in the sense that the lowest branches of a primary school are taught. In a word, the college is polytechnic in the broadest sense." The college offered "21 distinct courses of study" to a student body often numbering more than 200, an advertisement in the April 25, 1905, Denton County News stated. The college departments included "primary, intermediate, preparatory, teachers, literary, scientific, classic, psychology and oratory, Bible, musical art, commercial shorthand, typewriting, elect, postgraduate and review," Lee wrote. Students not enrolled in the primary and intermediate departments had "the prerogative of electing their own study or studies," he added. While the school offered "multifarious" instruction, activity centered around "only two great departments literary and the business," Lee wrote in 1906.

"The business department of the college is unquestionably as short and direct a route as any independent commercial institution anywhere to a lucrative position as stenographer and typwriter, or bookkeeper, for special attention is given to the commercial department, or the students studying the commercial arts," wrote. H. A. Ivy, president of the Denton Business College, apparently hid other ideas concerning the state of business education in Denton in 1906. THE DENTON Business College is "a -real business college (no side show to a literary school) equipped and conducted by a business man, on business principles, like a modern business office," an advertisement for the school announced in the April 25,1905, Denton County News.

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