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conversation, no one has ever dared to guess. But whoever has once manner. Presence of mind, which, in Herbert Spencer's opinion, ought seen the long line of white arms waving back and forth in front of the vigilance are required. she graduates. But it demands that every girl shall be in good health, is young and has never worked in other trades, where less speed and No matter how many millions of dollars may be spent upon cables and girls discover it in the course of the year. It is a most particular and rejects over fifteen thousand. Not more than one girl in every eight can chess-men. And she is much more welcome at this strange school if she This school is unique, too, in the fact that it charges no fees, pays school is hidden amid ranges of skyscrapers, but seventeen thousand every student five dollars a week, and then provides her with a job when temperament of the telephone girl. She is also taught the knack of concentration, so that she may carry the switchboard situation in her In 1902 the New York Telephone Company started a school, the first of its kind in the world, for the education of these telephone girls. This switchboard lights must feel that he has looked upon the very pulse of measure up to its standards; and it cheerfully refuses as many students every minute. How many possible combinations there are with the five million telephones of the Bell System, or what unthinkable mileage of head, as a chess-player carries in his head the arrangement of the quick-handed, clear-voiced, and with a certain poise and alertness of in a year as would make three Yales or Harvards. to be taught in every university, is in various ways drilled into the the city's life. exclusive school. It accepts fewer than two thousand of these girls, and

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