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Blue Book v036 n03 [1923-01], 1923
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1NOTE:—This announcement answers two questions that big employers repeatedly ask, viz: (1) What makes LaSalle men so practical? (2) Why don't more men train with LaSalle for the high pay positions in business?
3The LaSalle Problem Method
4—and how it successfully condenses a lifetime of experience into a few months of study
6A question has blocked action on the part of many thoughtful men who were and are sincere in their desire to qualify in high salary fields. They have asked themselves whether training gained at home by correspondence might not prove to be mere "book-learning"—impractical—unmarketable.
8We have no fault to find with this question—it is a natural one. The burden of our criticism rests on the man who permits the question to be its own answer, and to block and stop him in his upward climb without seeking further enlightenment.
10For when nearly 400,000 men have trained with LaSalle and found bigger, better things thru this training there must be sound reasons for their success.
12There are reasons. They lie in the LaSalle Problem Method of imparting—not "book-learning"—but real, practical, usable business experience.
14A knowledge of principles is one thing. The ability to apply and use principles—actually do the work at hand, is another—and the gap between the two is bridged by one factor and one only—Experience.
16That's why business men place such a premium on experience—it safeguards them against costly experiments.
18Suppose you decided to take up as your life work—accountancy, say.
20Now stretch your imagination a trifle.
22Suppose that thru the offices of an influential friend, arrangements were made for you to step in and immediately occupy the position you intended training to fill—right in the organization of a big corporation—with a complete department under your orders.
24Say that by your side were placed, as your instructors and guides, several high grade accountants—men of national reputation—their sole duty being to train and equip you.
26With these men instructing you in proper principles—then, you yourself exercising your own judgment in handling transactions and solving problems as they arose in your daily work—do you get the idea? You would be acquiring experience right along with the bed-rock fundamentals of the profession.
28Sitting in the chair of authority—dealing with actual business—learning by applying what you learned—with experts correcting your errors, commending good work, guiding you aright through the ramifications, routine and emergency situations of the entire accounting field and making you make good every step of the way—mind—not in a class-room, but right in a business office where you would be actually doing the work you were training for—
30—wouldn't you, at the end of a year or so in this situation be much farther ahead than men who had spent years seeking the same knowledge in the old, hard, "find-out-for-yourself" way?
32You can answer these questions—your good sense tells you that the situation described would make you a practical man—sure, certain and confident—able and capable of holding down any situation the accounting field offered.
34And that is why the LaSalle Problem Method makes practical men. Simply because the procedure outlined above is followed—exactly.
36True, you do your work at home. True, the experts who help you are located here in Chicago.
38Nevertheless, under the LaSalle Problem Method you are actually occupying the position you are training to fill, whether it be in the accountancy field, or traffic or business management, or law, or correspondence—irrespective of what you are studying you are acquiring principles and applying them in actual business under the watchful eyes and helpful guidance of men big in your chosen field.
40And when you have completed your LaSalle work, you can truthfully say that you are not only a thoroughly trained man, but an experienced man—you know the bed-rock principles and you have used them all—they are familiar tools in your hands.
42A LaSalle man can walk in anywhere with confidence. He does not feel the uncertainty and fear that arise when one faces the new and unknown. Under the Problem Method he has explored his chosen field on his own feet—the questions, the problems, the difficulties—he has met, faced and conquered them all.
44His experience makes him know that altho he may be assuming a new position at higher pay, the duties of that position are an old, familiar story.
46Experience is cash capital in business.
48There are only two ways to get it.
50One is the old, slow, uncertain way. The man who chooses to learn a branch of business by picking it up bit by bit as he goes along, finds the years slip by faster than he thought and sometimes his progress not as sure as he had anticipated. For all the "bits of knowledge" he sought may not have come his way.
52The other road is short, sure and certain. It lies thru the Problem Method, distinctive with LaSalle Extension University. This way condenses into months experience which it takes most men a lifetime to gain.
54The LaSalle Problem Method gives you self-confidence—practical, usable knowledge—because it makes you an experienced man.
56J. H. Chophine
57President LaSalle Extension University, of Chicago, Illinois
59LaSalle Extension University
60The Largest Business Training Institution in the World
62If you are in earnest when you say to yourself that you must do something to permanently increase your earning capacity!—then—check the coupon below in the square opposite that training which appeals most to you. It is a step you will never regret. And it is a step that is one hundred times as hard to make tomorrow as it is to take today. Where's that pen—never mind—a pencil will do just as well.
64INQUIRY COUPON
66LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY
67Dept. 1369-R
68CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
70Please send me catalog and full information regarding the course and service I have marked with an X below. Also a copy of your booklet, "Ten Years' Promotion in One," all without obligation to me.
72Business Management: Training for Official, Managerial, Sales and Executive positions.
73Modern Salesmanship: Training for Sales and Advertising Executives, Solicitors, Sales Promotion Managers, Salesmen, Manufacturers' Agents and all those engaged in retail, wholesale or specialty selling.
74Higher Accountancy: Training for positions as Auditor, Comptroller, Certified Public Accountant, Cost Accountant, etc.
75Traffic Management—Foreign and Domestic: Training for positions as Railroad or Industrial Traffic Manager, etc.
76Law: Training for Bar; LL. B. Degree.
77Railway Accounting and Station Management: Training for Railway Auditors, Comptrollers, Accountants, Clerks, Station Agents, Members of Railway and Public Utilities Commissions, etc.
78Industrial Management Efficiency: For Executives, Managers, Office and Shop Employees and those desiring practical training in industrial management principles and practice.
79Modern Business Correspondence and Practice: Training for Sales and Collection Correspondents; Sales Promotion Managers; Credit and Office Managers; Correspondence Supervisors, Secretaries, etc.
80Banking and Finance.
82Name………………………………………………………..Present Position………………………………………………………..Address………………………………………………………..
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