Word: penmanship
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Under the strain of a lengthy examination, the handwriting of many students reverts to childhood forms; even under normal conditions, others seem never to have advanced beyond the elemental, unformed state. English F takes care of the worst cases, but the kind of penmanship that "gets by" in college--though even here a disadvantage to the writer--would, in later life, lose many a man his job. When an instructor runs through a pile of blue-books or a number of weekly themes, their neatness may not receive official notice, yet no matter what the content may be, orderly writing...
...admit that the normal human being with the normal human memory might be able to locate these and other microscopic and insignificant phrases, but I also maintain that an abnormal rapidity of penmanship would be required to complete this part of the paper alone in less than three full hours...
...proof of a considerable development of the faculty of memory. That there is some justification for this belief is evident from the fact that with an average of less than three minutes allotted to each question (as was the case in the examination mentioned above), nothing but a rapid penmanship and an excellent memory would be of use to a student in the acquisition of a high mark. For it is obviously impossible to expect men to give evidence of original thought of even the most elementary nature on 61 different topics within three hours...
...business department at the Social Union this year men are needed to teach shorthand, penmanship, and book-keeping; and I shall be glad to interview anyone interested in the work at Stoughton 9 tonight at 7 o'clock. E. E. HUNT...
Other interesting objects are an early English hornbook, and an American hornbook found in New Jersey, one of three known specimens with a battledore and some early English primers. There is also the only known copy of Lilley's Latin Grammar, and a unique handbook of penmanship issued...