Study at Home by W. E. Howell

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 7, 1911

Study at Home

By W. E. Howell

"There's a Way"

THE Fireside Correspondence School announces its third annual opening Monday, Oct. 2, 1911.

I wish it were possible to express on this printed page, and to impress upon the mind of the reader, the satisfying results of study by correspondence. When the Fireside Correspondence School was organized two years ago, it was somewhat of an experiment in the minds of many. Even those who were chosen to manage the school could not say very much from personal experience. We have now given this work a thorough test for two years, and the results are gratifying beyond even our own expectations.

In our enthusiasm for this work we would not mislead any one. I shall therefore content myself with the giving of some facts, and with letting our students speak for themselves.

Fact 1. We had on our roll during the past year 211 names; 161 were new names.

Fact 2. In age the new students ranged as follows: minimum 15, maximum 76; in the “teens,” 29; in the twenties, 72; in the thirties, 36; in the forties, 12; in the fifties, 5; in the seventies, 1; general average, 27.5 years.

Fact 3. The occupations (new students) most largely represented were: Farming (fathers and sons), 33; teaching, 20; at home (mothers and daughters), 19; ministry, 12; canvassing, 10; nursing, 9; foreign mission work, 6; Bible work, 6.

Fact 4. The subjects with the largest number of registrations (new students) were: Grammar, 47; Bible doctrines, 40; composition-rhetoric, 16; New Testament Greek I, 13; physiology, 12; general history, 11; advanced rhetoric, 11; bookkeeping, 9; stenography, 9; algebra, 8; arithmetic, 8; church history, 6.

Fact 5. Every student recites the entire lesson.

Fact 6. Every lesson is examined and corrected by the teacher for the benefit of the individual student.

Fact 7. Before a student sets down his answer in black and white, he must know the answer; where the lesson is so set down, the teacher can easily see whether the student knows it or not.

Fact 8. Students do not suffer the disadvantage of getting behind the class, nor of being kept back by others.

Fact 9. Tuition may be paid in instalments, or with a discount if paid entirely in advance, or with a larger discount when two studies are taken at the same time.

Fact 10. Students have said to us repeatedly—but not for publication—that they get more out of their studies by correspondence than they did in a class in the ordinary school.

Next time we shall permit a few of our students to speak for themselves.

A calendar of full information will be supplied on request. It is necessary for you to act promptly in order to be ready for the opening day. Address the school at Takoma Park, D. C., or the undersigned. W. E. HOWELL, Principal.