*** Source: History and Business Directory of Humboldt County, Lillie E. Hamm, November 1890, Eureka, Cal. *** ---page 189--- [ad] Demorest Patterns and all kinds of Fashion Books at J. E. Mathews [ad] HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 189 THE PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT This department includes the work ordinarily covered by Primary and Intermediate grades in the public schools. The principal of this department is a Normal graduate and a skillful primary teacher. This department meets the demands of those who desire more thorough and careful training than can be had in the over-crowded public schools, and grows in popularity each year. THE GRAMMAR DEPARTMENT Is in charge of a highly competent instructor and prepares students more thoroughly for admission to the other departments of the school. THE ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT Prepares students for admission to any course in the State University, and also provides a general English course for those who do not intend to advance to strictly collegiate or university work. The course of study in this department is modeled after that of the best high schools in the State. Students are prepared here for admission to any department of our State University, Harvard, Yale or Michigan Universities. THE COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT This is the popular department of the school. From the start it has enjoyed the most marked popularity. The course of instruction includes Book-keeping, Commercial Arithmetic, Applied Grammar and Correspondence, Commercial Law, Rapid Business Penmanship and Spelling. The great aim in this department is the training of young men and women for business. The "Actual Business System," introduced into the school by Prof. Chas. L. Ellis, now of the S. F. Business College, forms the basis of all training in the Science of Accounts. So thorough and practical has been the training in this department that scores of young men in Humboldt county have been able to step from the school-room into lucrative and responsible positions, and not one of them so far has lost a position by reason of incompetency. The benefit that this department of the school has been to the score of young men and women who have taken the Commercial Course cannot be estimated. THE NORMAL DEPARTMENT There are about one hundred school districts in Humboldt county, the teachers in which are, for the most part, residents of the county. But owing to the inconvenience and expense of attending schools in distant parts of the State, but few have been able to secure professional training. The Normal department of Eureka Academy was established to afford teachers and those who contemplated teaching an opportunity to secure this training at home. From the inception of the school this department has been well patronized, and to-day very many of the teachers professionally engaged in this county have spent one or more terms at the "Academy Normal." A very large proportion of the teachers who have succeeded at the county examinations during the past three years, have been prepared at the Academy. [ad] Gibbard & Lever Manufacture DOOR AND WINDOW FRAMES, BRACKETS SCROLL WORK, TURNING, ETC. ETC. Factory Second & L Streets [ad] ---end---