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Title: Glimpses of the largest educational institution in the world, the International Correpondence Schools, Scranton, Pa
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: International Correspondence Schools
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Publisher: (Scranton, Pa.) International Textbook Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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about by the remarkable growth of the Schools; so, for several years, nineteen other
buildings in Scranton were occupied wholly or in part by the several departments of
the institution. The Instruction Building—recently occupied—was erected to meet
these new and pressing requirements.
The Instruction Building is a magnificent structure, strictly modern, and its floor area,
added to that of the Administration Buildings, makes a total floor space of about 7 acres.
In this new building there are some thirty Schools and departments, including the offices
of the Dean of the Faculty, the Director of Instruction, the Textbook Writers Department,
the Students Record, General Correspondence, Illustrating, Shipping and Supplies, Printing
and Binding Departments, etc.
By assembling all these closely related departments under one roof in a building specially
designed for our purposes, the correction of students work is now performed with greater rapidity
than ever before, without sacrificing in the slightest its well-recognized thoroughness.
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GUILD HALL, ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION
THE illustration represents the building of the International Correspondence Schools
erected at the St. Louis World's Fair. The name Guild Hall had its origin in the
fact that in England all the different arts, crafts, and trades used to have their separate
meeting places, which were called Guild Halls. On account of our success in fur-
nishing instruction to members of the different arts, crafts, and trades in America, it
was decided that the Guild Hall of the Model City at the Worlds Fair would very
appropriately be the building of the International Correspondence Schools.
The I. C. S. Guild Hall was situated about 300 feet from the Manufactures Building and
the main entrance to the Fair grounds.
The first floor contained an exhibit of the work done by students of our different courses,
and thoroughly demonstrated the benefits of our methods. The upper floor was a Students
Exchange, where I. C. S. students visiting the Fair enjoyed the conveniences of a well-appointed
meeting and resting place, received mail, wrote letters, checked parcels, etc.

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