The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-22
|. D. s. BUSINESS
STUDENTS COMPETE
Prizes Awarded victors in
Strenuous Tests Prescribed
by the instructors.
MAKE GREAT RECORDS
SHORTHAND WRITER'S TAKE
DICTATIoNS RAPIDLY.

very interesting feature Of the
closing exercises at the L. D. s Bush
ness college was the students contest
In shorthand and typewrfting ana 9TH
er branches. In the past few years this
competition was confined to shorthand
ana typewrittng. but this year contests
were held In practically all OF the bust
ness college subjects. A solid gold
mccall ard cash prizes amounting to
500 were awarded to the winners, the
prizes varying from 50 to $3.50 to each
successful contestant During the past
week preliminary tests were held In ell
the classes. the five leading students In
each case qualifying for the finals held
Friday afternoon
The finals resulted as follows: Rapid
calculations-Max Taylor, first: H R.
Done. second Penmanship-Otto E.
Vonlbaur. first; Frank Ebert, second
Spelling-Lucile Jenkins, first; Rens
Rigby, second Bookkeepfng-Ffr
year, Leo Eager; second year. George
Jackson Telegraphy-Jos. Blackham
Shorthand penmanship-Jennie VIII
lans. first; Cora Thompson. second.
The typewriting test consisted of fif-
teen minutes copying from historical
matter, the student winning first in
this test to receive the solid gold medal
presented by the Remington Typewritec
company. After deductions for errors,
the results were as follows:
Arthur Wood first; average Sc words
q minute for IS minutes. Ella Ryser,
second; average 40 words a minute for
Is minutes. Gilbert Wallace, third;
average as words minutes for Is min
utes
The test for cash prizes, confined to
students who enrolled during the pres
emit session, resulted as follows:
Dorothy Hall, first; average 81 words
minute for Is minutes Jennie Will
liams, second; average 45 words min
ute for 10 minutes. Louise Yunker.
third: average 43 words minute for
Is minutes.
The matter copied and conditions
were the same as in preceding test. IT
viii be observed that Miss Halls rec
ord was only two words minute below
the highest mark IN the medal test.
The shorthand tests resulted as fol-
lows: Open test-Arthur w. Gustave-
son, first; 1873 words a minute, net
Martha Williams. second; 131 AS words
Eliza beth Giersch, first; 131 As words
minute, net. Louise Yunker, second;
124 S-5 words q minute. net.
Five other students finished with net
results ranging from log SIS to 1870
words a minute after deductions for err
rors. Dictations were given at the fol-
lowing rates of speed: 100, 10, 120
$50 and 140 words q minute.
Four of the students who qualified
failed to complete transcripts in time
allowed. OF the remaining contest
ants, all except one transcribed the 40
words a minute test. On this test Mr.
Gustaveson made only three material
errors; and Miss GiSrsch, a first-year
student, made a net mark of 131 As
words q minute. The dictations con-
sisted of half commercial matter and
half newspaper editorials and speeches.
Considering the excitement incident to
entering contest, 6nd' the class of
dictations given, these results are very
tnGfrfrCfnro - ha
tests a number of the stu
dents wrote business letters from $50 to
$50 words minute. The matter used
in all the tests was entirely unfamil-
lar to the competitors.
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