Word: shorthand
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Irish-born Teacher John Gregg had no alternative but to carry out the father's wishes: the boy happened to be his first and only pupil. Six months later, he was also the first full-fledged graduate-a master of the new Gregg system of shorthand...
...time, there were other graduates, and the school soon outgrew its one classroom. Gregg added courses in bookkeeping, typing, and business English. He started a summer school, correspondence courses, began publishing his own shorthand manuals. By 1912 he had thousands of pupils around the world...
Pupils of his system have ranged from Billy Rose (200 words a minute) to Cuba's General Batista (175-200 words). There were businessmen and bankers, soldiers and statesmen, and legions of just plain Kitty Foyles. Of all the Americans who were to learn shorthand, 90% learned it from Gregg.* By the time he died in 1948, his loops and squiggles had recorded most of the business of the century...
...tailor's apprentice, bartender, barber, banana picker, cane cutter and railroad hand. At 20 he joined the Army. To other soldiers, he was virtually a literary type: there was always a book or magazine under the pillow of his bunk. When he got the chance, he studied shorthand and became a sergeant-stenographer, handling secret papers, working with high officers, traveling around...
...week course, from June 25 to August 3, is open to both men and women college students and graduates. Courses in typewriting, Gregg shorthand, speed-writing, the use of office machines, and secretarial practice will be given...