St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-25
1T WILL CLOSE TO-DAY.
The Business Educators Convention
Nearly Through With It's Work.
TYPEWRITING TALKED UPON
Suggestions as to Sh0rthand---A Plea
for Brevity-Learning to Write
by Music.

The Business Educators association
assembled at Curtiss business college
yesterday morning and proceeded to
business without delay.
The schools of shorthand and English
language held joint meeting. Mr..
Wilt gave few remarks on brevity in
correspondence. The subject should
be well in hand, and employees
should have good knowledge
OF the details of the business
and understand the customs, so that if
correspondence is left to them they
will know what they are talking about.
The motto in correspondence should be,
boil it down. Mr.. Packard thinks
the benefit derived by having an aman.
uensis is that the correspondence is
both improved and amplified, as the
dictator can say all that is necessary
without the effort of writing it. Mr..
Bayless said business colleges at first
considered it necessary to teach only
bookkeeping and penmanship, but have
since found that it was absolutely nee
eSsary to supplement- these studies.
Nearly all schools now have classes in
arithmetic and spelling, and some of
them teach the English language thor
oughly.
w. E. McCord, of New York, gave
most interesting talk upon teaching
language to shorthand students. He
advised debating letters to students,
and having them compose suitable
answers. o. p. Judd followed with
paper on typewriting. He thinks not
one-fourth of the typewriter operators
In the country are capable of getting off
good clean copies at the rate of fifty
words per minute. and urged the need
typeWritlng, which should be taught
by careful and systematic course of
work.
The next was paper written by j. d.
Creager, of Louisville, upon the sub
Ject OF teaching shorthand and type
writing. Thinks dictation should be
commenced as soon as the pupil has
mastered the cOnSOnant and vowel
sounds. The principal failures in type
writing are due to poor spelling, poor
punctuation and lack of speed.
The next paper read was one from
Elias Longley upon the subject OF
photography" He believes i'm teach
ing only a portion of the alphabet at a
lions with the letters learned before
passing to the remainder of the alpha
bet. He thinks a course in shorthand
should be at least six months long. A
paper from Miss Sue v Brown, of Mil
waukee, was next read by the secretary.
She thinks typeWriting should be begun
with the shorthand and advises the use
of actual business letters for dictation
work. She recommends study of the
pupils characteristics in order that the
instruction may be given i'll the way to
best develop the pupils character in
every way The general opinion of the
school was that all colleges fail more in
teaching typewriting than in teaching
shorthand. Mr.. Packard believed the
time for language and correspondence
should be taken from the shorthand
work.
A vote OF thanks was offered to Mrs
Packard and Mrs. Davis, the secretary,
for the work done by them in behalf of
the section, and to Mrs. Spencer, chair
man of school of English language and
correspondence, for her valuable course
of instruction to this class.
The last session of these departments
was held in the evening at O'Clock for
a general discussion of all the subjects
previously presented.
Penmanship Committee, G. S. Chap
man. Chairman Prof. ID. w. Hoff,
Moines, presented the subject of teach
ing penManship to advanced grades in
public schools. He prepared on the
blackboard diagrams showing the proper
position for writing, also great variety
of exercises for training the arm and
hand. These exercises were practiced
by the members of the school to the
tunes of large music box, making
strokes rapidly in perfect time.
Prof. G. n. Crandle, teacher of pen
manship in the Normal school at Dixon,
ILL.,, presented his method of conducting
large writing classes, ranging in mum
bers from $50 to 240 students. His
method is Straightforward, sensible. in
teresting and must prove effective in
producing good writers.
School of Accounts and Business
Practice-The school listened to very
instructive paper on The Higher Work
of Closing Ledgers," by Col. George
Soule, New Orleans, La. Discussion of
Business Practice" this evening.
School of Civics-W. E. McCord, sec
rotary, will today make final report of
the entire work done by that section.
The association will finish it's laborS
some time to-day, closing with the cleo
ton of officers. 1t is pretty generally
understood that the next meeting will