The story of Pittsburgh: Education, part two

Education, part two (Vol. 1, nr. 15)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623781

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241142

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Title:: Education, part two

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 15

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: [ca. 36] Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Park institute

Collection:: Economics Books

the Bryant and Stratton Business College of Baltimore in 1901, to take charge of the commercial department. Mr. Rowan was the last of the original organizers to retire. He sold his interest to Mr. Hughes in 1909. While Park Institute as a business school is not the oldest in the city, it is an outgrowth of a whole century of uninterrupted educational work. The changes in the per- sonnel of the instructors have been very few. It seems to be a place where once one is placed he wants to stay. Leo C. Mueller, assistant manager, and Miss C. Minerva Brumbach, as secretary, have been rendering invaluable support and assistance in maintaining the high quality of the school since 1915. The whole purpose of Park Institute is to give young men and women a superior training for the profession of Business, the most highly paid and fascinating of all pro- fessions. The result of these years of careful work in pre- paratory education fully justifies the efforts. In the city are hundreds of professional men, mostly lawyers and physicians, who took their college preparatory work in Park Institute a quarter of a century or more ago; but the number of successful business men and executives who owe their start in life to the lessons learned at Park Institute is much greater, for there has been a continual stream of young people of both sexes turned out every year from the school that has been “forty years on North avenue.” PITTSBURGH ACADEMY Pittsburgh Academy owes its inception to J. Warren Lytle, 1854-1914, a pioneer in the field of secondary education in Pennsylvania. In 1882, then at the age of 28, Mr. Lytle per- ceived the need of a first-class college preparatory and busi- ness school that would combine educational and cultural advantages with efficient business training. The first home of the Pittsburgh Academy was in a building known as Neville Hall, located at Fourth and Liberty avenues, in the “golden triangle” of Pittsburgh. Here a faculty of four capable and earnest instructors laid the foundation for the future greatness of the Pittsburgh

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