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HOWARD UNIVERSITY.
Commercial Department!
FiVgpLTY.
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JOHN
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GEOfcGEWILLIAM COOK, A.M., LL.M.,
Dean, and Professor of Ci^OMinS<fenimercial Law.
MARY ANNETTE ANDERSON, B.S.,
■--Issirtrctor in English
History.
■ WALTER L. SMITH, B.S.,
Instructor in MathSntatics.
CORA E. DORSEY,
Instructor in Shorthand and Typewriting.
! CORA L. MOORE-
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:
Instructor, iii NtattfriU "Sciences.
T
HE Trustees of Howard University recognizing the impor
tance of Commercial instruction have*^established the
.‘‘Commercial Department^®
' Believing that next in importance to ability to earn a dollar is
ability.to use it wisely and economically, and invest it safely;
that our students should be taught the great principles of busi
ness, manufacture, and commerce, the sources of wealth and the
opportunities for earning a livlihood; and that they should
know how to accumulate capital and how to handlejit profitably,
the Trustees appointed Prof. George William Cook, A. M., Dean,
with instructions to provide not a Course similar to that of the
technical “Business College,” but a broad curriculum handling
historic, scientific and economic subjects.
This Department now offers a three years’ course in Economics,
Political Science, Business and Industries, correlated with and
supplemented by Courses in Mathematics, History, Science and
Xanguages, and adapted to produce broad and progressive busi
ness men. TUITION IS FREE FOR THE ENTIRE COURSE.
PURPOSE.
The main purpose of the Commercial Department is, to give a
Course as practical as possible by presenting npe technical and