BAD PENMANSHIP.
_ The English Oivil Service Commissioners have made it known that in future candidates for admission to Sandhurst and Woolwich will find their examination marks subject to deductions o<: 10 per cent, for illegible handwriting and for bad spelling. For those who write much, and whom years have robbed of the facile touch of youth, there may be some excuse for indifferent handwriting. For the schoolboy or girl there ought to be none. Possibly the efforts made nowadays in schools to impart a firm and clear style of writing are not so great as in former generations. Be that as it may, there are writers who admit with contrition that no amount of tuition or practice availed to produce a reasonably readable manuscript. As for spelling, the man is not yet born who does not occasionally find solae© in the proximity of a dictionary.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 18 November 1911, Page 10
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145BAD PENMANSHIP. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 18 November 1911, Page 10
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