Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette . n thenearest possible results to these copies, ir-respective of character. I doubt verymncli if there be a single teacher (themajority are single) in any school who ad-vocates the attainment of character in pen-manship as the result. In conclusion, I wish to relate an ex-])erience I had in discussing this individual-ity in .writing with a gentleman highly EDUCATIONAL NOTES. irontributinns for this Doimrtment miy I*.ddrcased to H. F. Keli^ev. office of Tb8 Fen-ians AbtJoubnai,. Driuf Pact*.Ohio Wesleyan University has over S


Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette . n thenearest possible results to these copies, ir-respective of character. I doubt verymncli if there be a single teacher (themajority are single) in any school who ad-vocates the attainment of character in pen-manship as the result. In conclusion, I wish to relate an ex-])erience I had in discussing this individual-ity in .writing with a gentleman highly EDUCATIONAL NOTES. irontributinns for this Doimrtment miy I*.ddrcased to H. F. Keli^ev. office of Tb8 Fen-ians AbtJoubnai,. Driuf Pact*.Ohio Wesleyan University has over SOO England. The Pratt Institute for Industrial Educa-Brooklyu, N. Y., islhe largest institu- played at New Haven in 1840 between i The pay-roll of the Michigan University i ?XAC: in West )?. 1 r. lu the reniain- I \v.\u I per cent. England, with a population of -26,, bad under SStW students at her Gennany, with a pojiulatii) year the Uniteil Si ^(, haddii i ..in schools of ^,lSIinmedical •<li I-. Pboto-Enyraved from Ie educated, a Ph. D., and now a young di-vine in England. On seeing some skillfully executed speci-mens and reproductions of penmanship,this gentleman immediately recognizedthem by the cognomen of Spencerian,and then and there expressed his antipathyto everything savoring of the Spencerian,by intimating that they lacked individual-ity, and that they were mechanical, assuch writing had a tendency toward a cer-tain standpoint. He said, furthermore, my own writingis execrable ; nevertheless, it exhibitscharacter, I agreed with him and toldhim that it exhibited the character of in-difference to the beautiful in penmanship. He told roe that his sisters written U\though they apparently represented theoutstretched claws of a scorpion in agony,were his ideal as to individuality; theseMs were strictly original, and defied allattempts to decipher thein. Opinions like these. I believe, are the prevalent acceptations of individuality an


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