Richmond Hill High School - Archway / Dome Yearbook (Richmond Hill, NY)

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In every instance all previous records were shattered by those Writers. THE DOME PageFwe Another Sweeping Victory for saac Pitman Shorthand ' Result of the Contest for the Shorthand V- 1 f Champzonshm rf the W orfa' NATHAN BEHRIN Held at New London, Conn. Champion Shorthand A Wlriter of the Vllorld U-gust 24, I 922 The results of the three tests for the championship are as follows: D Speed 200 Position Name System No. of WO1'dS Errors Net First John F. Daly Isaac Pitman 999 3 996 Speed 240 First Nathan Behrin Isaac Pitman 1204 S 1196 Speed 280 First Nathan Behrin Isaac Pitman 1407 7 1400 In the special high speed test on solid matter at 220 words a nzinute three Pitman writers broke the previous rccorcl with ease: Speed 220 V First Solomon Powsner Isaac Pitman 1105 10 1095 Second Nathan Behrin Isaac Pitman 12 1093 Third John F. Daly Isaac Pitman 13 1092 Nathan Behrin, an Isaac Pitman Shorthand writer, who has not taken part in these contests since 1914, and without previous jJ1'617LIl'l1ll'07L, easily won the championship, smash- ing all previous records. Behrin made a total of only 19 errors in the three tests for the title at 200, 240, anal 280 words a nzinfate, making an average accuracy percentage of 99.5 in a total of 3,610 words. Mr. Behrin attributes his wonderful achievement to the remarkable simplicity of ISAAC PITMAN SI-IURTHAND The following pertinent facts prove conclusively that Isaac Pitman Shorthand is the SIMQPLEST, the most LEGIBLE, and the SIVIFTEST, and is the system that should be studied by all prospective shorthand writers. ' Nathan Behrin entered the contest at the last moment, after six weeks' vacation from his court work, during which he received no practice. He finished transcribing his notes o-ver an hour and hfteen minutes sooner than any other competitor. He took less than half thetime allowed to transcribe the three tests for the title. Messrs. Behrin, Daly, and Powsner needed no intensive training, and they all ascribe their success to the simplicity and practicability of Isaac Pitman Shorthand. Cut of seventeen contests fifteen have been won by Pitman writers. P't a Shorthand is easily learned because it possesses a rational alphabet basis and a 1 man s rational scheme of abbreviating devices determined by the phonetic structure of the English language, These salient features eliminate the burden and confusion of memorizing arbitrary and illogical rules together with untold numbers of special abbreviations, as in Light line systems, where before half the theory has been mastered it is necessary to memorize hundreds upon hundreds of word signs. 93 per cent. of the New York clay and evening high schools teach the Isaac Pitman system of t l Ld el and jiftf public, shorthand. You can learn Isaac Pitman Shorthand in some wo zur r 1, ' 3 private, and parochial schools in New York City or rn any public school iaherc twenty or more ji-upils ask for it. ASK FOR lsfmc PITMAN SHORTHAND. ACCEPT' No SUBSTITUTE. ISAAC PITMAN 85 SONS 2 West 45th Street N ew York Please mention The Dome when patronizing our advertisers

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lllll llllllli The Dome Staff Editor-in-Chief, WILLIAM J. RILEY Fiction . ..... HOWARD TIFFANY Poetry ...................,.. ELSIE SPOERL Art ......................... ROGER HEINS Photography ..... EDWARD JAMGOTCHIAN Circulation ......... EDWARD PENTECOST Advertising ........... A LFRED D. PHILLIPS Assistant Circulation.ALFRED D. PHILLIPS Assistant Advertising ..... EDWARD WEISS QU, Circulation ........,..., ROBERT BURKE Business ' ................... SABIUEL SHICK 90, Literary ...,.......... ANNA SIEGMANN Treasurer ...,... ..... C 'HARLES STRONG 51, Circulation . ..,....,... RAY KATZ Girls' Athletics .... DOROTHY BAYLEY 51, Literary ...... .... N ADENE CORNISH Senior Notes ... ...BURGESS MOI-IRHAUS Boys' Athletics .... HOWARD MESLER Exchange ..... .,...r I RTI-IUR DANIELS Log ........... ..... B I. L. FINCH, IR. Secretary ..... ........ R UTI-I BISHOP Alumni ..,..... ...... f XLFRED STRAUB Question Box ,... ...... I YVELYN SEQXIEL Humor ............... ERWIN P. VOLLMER Societies ................ RI-IODA CORFIELD Faculty Adviser ...... DR. L. CORSON Advertising Adviser.MR.R. H. PROCTOR Pete MAN' you think he was a wonderful dog? Guess you never heard of Jim Trotter's dog 'Pete,' an, what he did for Jim the night of that blisterin' blizzard three-no, four years ago. Never have, eh? Well, you,ll hear it sometime, an, it might's well be now, 'cause it was me as went out after Jim when 'Petel came a-tearin' an, a- scratchin'-but thatls all in the storyf, There was a scraping of chairs about the stove as the men stationed themselves closer to the fire, for it was a cold night? the cold- est that the up-country had experienced for years, and it was blowing a gale besides. There was a scratching of matches as pipes were re-lit. Only one man remained un- moved. He merely licked his lips and wait- ed for the others to settle themselves. Then he began. This Jim Trotter and me had been to- gether ever since he came up from the States, a matter of some ten years now. I was a little older than him, but that only made him seem like a kid brother to me. VVe'd always be together: eat together, sleep together, and many times fight to- gether, not always against others, either- but that's a part of bein' pals. VVeld just had one of our scraps, about whether to take stakin' pegs with us or not on our trip up to Jackson in the gold rush. A rather petty thing, you say. Yes, and we paid prettily for it. VVe both got hot under the collar, what with arguin' back an, forth an, such, so finally he said as how he'd go it alone. I told him to go ahead an' be - to him. 'KI-Ie packed up his sled and left with his team, 'Pete' in the lead. lt was a night like this, bitter cold, the wind a-blowin' ht to kill, an' snowin' likeiblue blazes. When Jim left it was snowinl hard, but not a penny's worth to what it was doin' a couple of hours later. I was sittin' right where l'm sittin' now. That's why l didn't move a while