three years, or a girl of equal ability who was still in school and could write thirty words a minute. Which do you think he would select to train for the contest? One would naturally suppose that he would select the operator who had a start of forty words a minute, and who had been seasoned by practical business experience. But I am positive that the expert would select the girl who was still in school; for the reason that the operator who had been out in business for two or three years would, in all probability, have acquired certain time-wasting habits which would require more time to eliminate than would be required to increase the speed of the student to a higher speed than that of the girl who had been out in business for some time.
Our own experience in training writers for rapid shorthand work has been precisely the same as that of the typewriter experts. I remember that in
