115 East 87th Street October 29, 1918 Mrs. John Osgood 17 East 90th Street New York City My dear Mrs. Osgood: This evening I noticed your advertisement in the Times, and I should like to apply for the place. This letter in my own handwriting will prove to you that I have not neglected the excellent training in penmanship given in our school. My teacher, Miss Ellen Hart, 56 Lexington Avenue, will tell you that I am an unusually good speller. May I call and talk with you about the work? I can come any afternoon after school. Yours truly, Marion Walton EXERCISE 6 WRITING FROM DICTATION OR FROM MEMORY SOME WISE RULES FOR SUCCESS IN BUSINESS "A long time ago the world began," and if we are not too conceited to take advice we can benefit by the experience of all the ages. Some of these sayings are more than two thousand years old; some go back only to yesterday; all are full of wisdom. If you like them, learn them; if you believe them, practice them. At any rate, write them and think about them. As vinegar to the teeth and as smoke to the. eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him. As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him. A reproof entereth more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool. There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing; there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.— Proverbs The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money. A penny saved is two pence clear. Diligence is the mother of good luck. If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. He that can have patience can have what he will. God helps them that help themselves. Jack Little sowed little, and little he'll reap. All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful. He that hath a trade hath an estate. Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other. Plough deep while sluggards sleep, And you shall have corn to sell and to keep. A wise man will desire no more than he can get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. Richard's Almanac There's no use waiting for your ship to come in if you Poor have n't Your attention has already been called to the interest and the advantages of publishing some sort of school or class paper. If a printed paper is impracticable a multigraphed or mimeographed one is in many ways quite as good, or even a typewritten or handwritten magazine. Some large schools issue a weekly news sheet, others a magazine once a term, to which all grades contribute. If your school does not think best to undertake such a paper, - and the work involved is sure to demand a good deal of time from a few people, at least your own class can make a magazine to leave in the room for the succeeding grade or for filing in the school library. A school or a class paper is worse than none unless it maintains a high standard both in content and in form. It reflects the spirit and the quality of the 'school or class which issues it, and it indicates pretty well the grade of scholarship demanded in that school. Cheap and flippant people should not be allowed to control or even to share a thing which expresses the life of the school. Yet all should have an opportunity to contribute according to their ability. The paper, in whatever manner issued, should exhibit in its varied forms the real and best life of the class. 1 If preferred, other individual or group projects may be substituted for a school paper. See Appendix G. But in any case it would be well to do the proofreading suggested in this problem. EXERCISE 1 PLANNING AND OUTLINING A CLASS PAPER One good thing about a class paper is that it demands coöperation. But to get many people to do something together and to do it well requires careful planning, energetic persistence, and a considerable amount of time. If you wish to make a class magazine or paper, decide now who shall be the editor in chief and the assistant editors, and plan what kind of publication you will issue, what departments it shall have, and how you will pay for its publication. If it is to be a manuscript paper the cost will be slight only for paper and, perhaps, for photographs and paints. You can have an artistic cover of heavy paper, with illuminated lettering or any other attractive device that you please. A typewritten or multigraphed paper will cost somewhat more, unless you do the work yourselves, but there will be a number of copies which can perhaps be sold. If you have a printing press of your own, of course you can print as well as multigraph, and as cheaply, but if you must have the paper printed you will have to sell a good many copies and get a good many advertisements to cover the cost. One class alone could hardly undertake the responsibility for such a venture. To show you some of the kinds of material which you might use in your paper, a number of specimens of editorials, news items, and special features have been put into this problem, but of course the more you make your paper reflect the work of your own class and no other, the better it will be. Here is the table of contents from one issue of a good school magazine which has already been quoted several times in this book. Although it is one of the more elaborate kind, it may prove suggestive to you for a less Perhaps you can get sample copies of some good school |