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Students looking at the course catalog of DePaul University's College of Commerce for the 1918-19 academic year would have seen a brand new program appended to the end. The new program listing described the classes in the Shorthand School. Though DePaul's College of Commerce opened classes in January 1913, this was the first time it offered classes geared specifically towards secretarial and clerical work. Despite its small start, the shorthand program would eventually become the Secretarial College, one of DePaul's most popular programs over the next four decades.