concensus of opinion that it was humanly impossible to operate the machine at more than one hundred words a minute.
Then came another factor. The typewriter companies began to realize the advertising advantages of high speed records made on their machines, and they employed efficiency experts to undertake the scientific training of some of their operators. You all know what happened. Suddenly the records made in the contests shot up twenty or thirty words a minute. Soon they were far above one hundred words a minute, and they have now reached somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred fifty words a minute. That is to say, they are now fifty per cent higher than what was believed to be humanly possible a few years ago.
I was at the Business Show in Boston last Monday night, and saw a young girl who had entered a business school after September first last win a cup by
