Show ancient shorthand schools apparently there were schools ot 0 i shorthand as early as the third cen tury ur and in egypt A recently die covered papyrus which dr grenfell described at a meeting of the egypt exploration fund was a contract between a shorthand teacher and aman a man who wished one of bis his slaves to ac quire the art the fee was drachmas forty to ba be paid on apprenticeship tice ship forty at the end of the year and the balance when the slave wa was proficient shorthand amrit writing ng wa was then presumably not so easy e of attainment tain ment as it Is now among the other documents of the papyri Is the account of a fatal acci dent and of the body of the victim being examined by the coroner of the day in company with a public physician phy |