Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette . and if possible toimprovu- upon the orderly and systematicwritmg with which he left school. His writing would tend toward higher excel-lence. Another, in a law office, had strug-gled for dear life with briefs and the copy-ing of legal documents where speed wasthe only criterion of his success, where nopride of style or anticipated gain fromgood writing has iud^uenced his writing has come to be the merestscrawl. Another, perhaps with amplemeans, has occupied his time as a tourist,only occasionally employing bis writing solutely necessary to
Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette . and if possible toimprovu- upon the orderly and systematicwritmg with which he left school. His writing would tend toward higher excel-lence. Another, in a law office, had strug-gled for dear life with briefs and the copy-ing of legal documents where speed wasthe only criterion of his success, where nopride of style or anticipated gain fromgood writing has iud^uenced his writing has come to be the merestscrawl. Another, perhaps with amplemeans, has occupied his time as a tourist,only occasionally employing bis writing solutely necessary to successful instructionin writing, and especially in our gradedcity schools. Here pupils pass from onegrade to another, coming under the in-struction of different teachers, renderingit necessary that the work in one gradesupplement fully that of another; other-wise there would be a liability that a pupilwould be required to undo in one gradewhat they had sought to do in besides, it is necessary that there be Movement Copies for Practice. for correspondence. His writing willhave undergone a very slight change ascompared with that of the policy and lawclerk. Another has engaged in some pursuit, where the hand hasbeen very little exercised in writing, andwill, therefore, have no very radicalchange. It is inevitable that the hand-writing of each of these various pupils willhave undergone a change as varied as havebeen their occupations, character, dispo-sition, artistic taste and the circumstancesunder which they have exercised theirhands. Hence it is with great impatiencethat we have noted the assertions andarguments against uniform copies in theschoolroom. Uniform and systematic coptea are ab- a certain standard of form for all ofthe letters of the alphabet and also fortheir combination in writing, else therecould be no systematic preparation on thepart of teachers for teaching writing, orrules for their guidance in instruction, orthe pupils
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