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Instruction in Benn Pitman's shorthand as used by expert stenographers; full course completed in five weeks or upwards, according to the time devoted to it. A thorough knowledge guaranteed. Frank G. Drake, verbatim reporter, 9 Brattle square, Cambridge...
Instruction in Benn Pitman's shorthand as used by expert stenographers; full course completed in five weeks or upwards, according to the time devoted to it. A thorough knowledge guaranteed. Frank G. Drake, verbatim reporter, 9 Brattle square, Cambridge...
...follows: R. G. Gridley, 140 pounds (bow); 2, E. W. Haig, 161 lbs.; 3, P. G. S. Probert, 162 1-2 lbs.; 4, S. Swann, 188 lbs.; 5, F. E. Churchill, 190 lbs.; 6, J. C. Brown, 178 lbs.; 7, C. W. Moore, 167 lbs.; F. I. Pitman, 167 lbs. (stroke); C. Tyndal-Biscoe, 118 1-2 lbs. (cox). Average weight...
...short-hand now in vogue, which has supplanted the many systems that arose after the time of Queen Elizabeth, when short-hand was brought to light again after its long depression since the time of its founder, Tiro, Cicero's freedman.* This phonography was invented by Mr. Isaac Pitman, of Bath, England, and, as its name denotes, is a writing of the sounds heard in speaking. It has, on this account, a great gain over the old systems in additional speed, in simplicity, and in the means it supplies of expressing every language in the same characters, though its value...