I believe the answer is to be found, as it is in the case of penmanship, in the statement that the teachers keep before the students from the beginning the end to be attained, and that is rapidity as well as accuracy. They start the student right; they see that the posture is right; that the method of doing the work is right; that the student is kept alert and enthusiastic from the very first day and all through the course; above all, they aim to eliminate every false motion.
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Now, for another phase of this question: Suppose that one of the experts employed by the typewriter companies was asked to select an operator to enter a contest at a high rate of speed to be held a year from now, and that he had his choice of a good operator writing seventy words a minute who had been out in the business world for two or