All explanation and dictation of lessons is individual, not in class-each student being taught separately from first lesson to the last.

Careful watch is given to see that students thoroughly practice the shorthand outlines to each lesson, and, therefore, before the teacher dictates the Exercise of any shorthand lesson, the student is required to show his or her practice sheets containing the repetition of at least 50 consecutive writings of each separate outline in said shorthand Exercise, in addition to the complete writing of said Exercise. This gives facility in formation of the shorthand characters-producing skill of hand, which no other plan will give. We do not permit study without shorthand practice.

We give a half-hour of typewriting practice in the morning session and 20 minutes in the afternoon, to each day shorthand student. Experience has shown us that most students get wearied with more than 20 minutes to a half-hour's machine practice and only waste any excess of that time.

Night students receive 20 minutes typewriting practice, and as much more time as absence of other students may permit.

Our typewriting lessons are printed in our fifty cents book of Business Correspondence ; are fourteen in number, twelve of them containing merely words and phrases, beginningin first lesson with words of two letters, and ending in twelfth lesson with words of twelve or more letters, each marked to show the proper fingering to use for best work and speed. The 13th and 14th lessons contain two business letters -one small one, wide spaced; and one large one, narrow-spaced-representing the two popular styles used in general business, they being also radically different in such points as address, wording, etc. These letters are explained carefully to the student and the first must be written without an error or erasure and approved by the teacher before the second letter is attempted, when that must be gone over as many times as is necessary to make one absolutely correct copy without an error or erasure. This being done, the student thereafter, when at the machine, copies the business letters and court and convention proceedings from five of our little ten cent Speed pamphlets, which we print for that purpose, and which we sell to students for 35 cents, the five pamphlets containing sufficient material for typewriting practice during balance of term, as they should be written entirely through several times.

At the end of typewriting period, the student returns to desk and continues the study and practice of shorthand lessons. It is expected that the full day student will learn thoroughly the twelve lessons of our Shorthand manual during first month of day attendance, at an average of three lessons each week, so as to begin in speed class the first day of second month Those who can learn four Shorthand lessons the first week will be that much ahead, and have so much more time at end of first month to master the longer Shorthand lessons which are last, and to review same.