Abstract
The first and minor problem in this thesis is to sketch the growth of commercial education beginning with the early business training of the colonial days and ending with the present time, including a number of business courses; namely the stenographic course, bookkeeping course, clerical or office practice course. |The second and major problem in this thesis is to show the development in the textbook content, the objectives, the office equipment, including its place in the curriculum and the plans for teaching office practice, figuring its beginning in 1910. The basic assumption underlying the problem is that there is a growing conviction that some sort of a training in office practice should be included in every commercial curriculum in the secondary schools.