Word: shorthand
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SEVENTY-EIGHT Sophomores wrote themes on some new study or branch of knowledge which they would like to see introduced at Harvard. Mr. Perry has kindly given the subjects which were chosen, and they are as follows: Shorthand, 11; Chinese Language, 8; Gymnastics, 8; Hygiene, 6; English Literature, 5; Singing, 4; Literature, 4; Greek and Roman Antiquities, 3; Elocution, 3; German Conversation, 3; English Composition, 2; Russian Language, 2; Use of Books, 2; and one each on Political Science, Theory of Mathematics, Advanced Course in Fine Arts, Scientific Theory, History of the United States, Natural History of Every Day Life...
...within his purchasing power, - all these may find a most valuable help from this "ready writing." Indeed, everybody seems to be so busy nowadays that one cannot but be reluctant to bring forward any pursuit or study that is not itself saving of time; but this is just what shorthand is, and a year's uninterrupted practice of an hour a day is almost certain to furnish the ability to write upwards of a hundred words a minute, or thrice as fast as long-hand writing. So important is the system considered abroad, that stenography is taught...
...said by some that Father Ennius invented shorthand, but Tiro probably originated the notoe by which his master's speeches were taken down...