The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-07
COURSE IN oFF1cEBoY1NG.
Tuition Invades a Field Hitherto Mo
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Tuition Invades a Field Hitherto Mo
 nopolized by the Institutional.
 The occult science of off1ceboying, hitherto monopolized by adopts who have come by it by divine right or in some other mysterious way, is to be made free to all. The educational de- partment of the West Side Young Mems Christian association has so de- cided, and stands ready to deliver the goods, as a self-educated office boy might say, to any boy who will put up fee of two dollars for eleven weeks tuition and two dollars for membership in the association.
 The instruction is not only for those who dwant to be office boys, but for those who are holding down jobs and want to take a supplementary course.
 About thirty boys were in room POI of the West Side Young Mems Christian association quarters last night to start In their curriculum, as the high browed youngster informed the reporter. Most of the boys were more than sixteen years old and some were nearly twen- | ty-one. They were, as a rule, a steady and good looking lot, and they listened with great respect to the addresses of U. D. Shaw, assistant educational direc- tor of the institution, who will be head of the training school for office boys; J. | P. Norton, who will have charge of the practical work, and E. F. Edie, who will superintend the academic work, such as reading, writing and arithme- | tic..
 Mir Norton told the boys that the trouble with the city boy was that he hadn't enough patience and sticktoit- iveness, He wanted to acquire ability without fighting for it. The country boy was usually ahead of the city boy In the office boy business, because his experience as a country boy had taught | him the value of systematic and hard work and early hours. The city boy was diverted by all the things that planners of entertainment spent such vast sums of money on to make New York the greatest amusement center of the world. Cigarette smoking was not good, enough for the business of office boying, and MT. Morton intimated gently that those who were indulging in it ought to stop. Several boys in the thirty, who looked somewhat like the real thing in office boys, smiled in a way that indicated guilt without re- morse, D..
 MT Shaw told the boys to come around tonight and act their first practical lessons in large room on the fourth floor fitted like modern office, with two telephones connecting with seven stations in the building, desks, systems of letter filing and card index ing, manifolding machines and all the other things that an office boy is sup posed to know something about.
 The circular of the training school superintendent, mimeographed quite prettily by an office boy, says:
 "Ineluded in the elements of office work are personal appearance, neat ness, cleanliness, carriage and address, as yell as courtesy and politeness in receiving visitors. The boys will be shown that bright shoes, clean hands and nails and a shining morning face are business assets, and no boy who i gets through the course will be likely to say 'Aw g'wan!' to his employers s kbusiness callers. ."-New York Sun.