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Also notable among the scholars, politicians, benefactors whose conventional citations for honorary degrees graced last week's Commencements, was that which accompanied a C. S. D. (Doctor of Commercial Science) given by Boston University to John Robert Gregg, creator of the Gregg Shorthand System, "pioneer and outstanding contributor to the development of commercial education; originator of a system of shorthand that has become world-wide in its use, and which has conspired with the art of typewriting to revolutionize the economic outlook of young women everywhere...
Forty-two years ago in Liverpool, John Robert Gregg decided that the existing methods of shorthand writing were too complicated. He invented and for five years taught a system of his own. Later in Boston, later in Chicago he established schools, disseminated his tachygraphic doctrine, prospered. Of the 7,124 U. S. cities whose public schools teach shorthand, 98% now use the Gregg system...
...outstanding shorthand systems are the Gregg and the Pitman (originated in 1837) and its adaptations. The Pitman has more symbols-an alphabet of 42 figures, numerous word signs-but fewer stenographers use it than the Gregg. Fundamentally all shorthand systems employ the use of phonetic spelling and abbreviation. But the Pitman method requires the use of lined stationery (identical symbols above and below a line have different connotations and characters of different shading (identical symbols written darker or lighter have different connotations...
...made in the stenographer's task are attributable to: 1) all characters being written with the same intensity; 2) characters based on longhand script rather than applications of geometric figures (Pitman system); 3) incorporation of vowels into the word-figure. But so individualized is all but professional shorthand writing that few stenographers can read one another's script...
...Taft's error when administering the Presidential Oath to Herbert Clark Hoover (TIME, March 25). All that flustered Earl Russell could do was to beg newspaper reporters for their notes. These proved, like all human testimony, to be conflicting. But finally there was found a page of scraggly shorthand symbols which His Lordship hailed as proving that what he had really said was: "A child must learn to walk before he can run and, without in the least disparaging our subjects in the Indian Empire, I say that they have not yet learned to walk and it will...