. Glimpses of the largest educational institution in the world, the International Correpondence Schools, Scranton, Pa . GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE DEPARTMENT THE general correspondence with students, including nearly everything except thatrelating to the instruction work and accounts, is carried on by the General Corre-spondence Department. This department employs a large force of stenographers andclerks, and sends out an average of six hundred special letters a day. Under the management of this department is also the Files Department. In thisdepartment a huge card catalog of our students is kept.


. Glimpses of the largest educational institution in the world, the International Correpondence Schools, Scranton, Pa . GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE DEPARTMENT THE general correspondence with students, including nearly everything except thatrelating to the instruction work and accounts, is carried on by the General Corre-spondence Department. This department employs a large force of stenographers andclerks, and sends out an average of six hundred special letters a day. Under the management of this department is also the Files Department. In thisdepartment a huge card catalog of our students is kept. The system is a duplicateone, arranged in two sets of cases; one an alphabetical file, arranged according to names, andthe other a geographical file, arranged according to states and countries in which students THE RECORDING DEPARTMENT IN THIS department record is kept of each students name, address, class letters andnumber, age, occupation, and other information considered likely to prove records are kept on cards filed in cases made especially for this purpose. When the students work is corrected by the instructors, it is sent to this depart-ment, where a record is taken of the percentage mark awarded, and a note made ofother features of the students work, so that the Schools can at any time tell the exactprogress a student is making. If a students present or prospective employer desires informationregarding the progress he has made, or wishes to learn of his capabilities as a student, this infor-mation can be furnished immediately by this department on receipt of the students request orpermission. In innumerable ways, the Recording Department is of immense value, both to thestudent and to the instructor.


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