THE  VESTIBULE  SCHOOL
controlled  conditions  for  a  comparatively  extensive  period
of  time.
Vestibule  schools  may  be  divided  into  two  general  kinds,
the  office  vestibule  and  the  factory  vestibule.  Both
schools  have  the  same  purpose.  However,  there  are  likely
to  be  considerable  differences  between  them  in  equipment
and  size,  and  consequently  in  method.  Each  of  these
types  of  vestibule  schools  will  therefore  be  considered
separately.
THE  OFFICE  VESTIBULE  SCHOOL
In  describing  the  office  vestibule  school,  it  is  unnecessary ­
  to  launch  out  into  theory.  One  need  only  point  to
the  office  training  school  of  the  Larkin  Company  of
Buffalo,  one  of  the  first  and  most  successful  schools  of
the  kind  in  the  country,  to  see  a  complete  example  of  the
methods  and  results  of  such  a  school.  (See  report  of  the
Committee  on  Office  Training  Schools,  J.  H.  Puffer,
chairman,  in  the  fourth  and  fifth  annual  Bulletins  of  the
National  Association  of  Corporation  Schools.)
In  general,  the  vestibule  school  is  built  around  those
classes  of  work  which  are  most  characteristic  of  the  particular ­
  office  which  the  school  is  intended  to  serve.  The
following  classes  of  work  are  typical  of  almost  all  large
offices:
Typing
Correspondence
Counting-machine  operating
Filing
Bookkeeping
Messenger  service.
Each  class  of  work  is  taken  up  separately  by  a  group  of
new  workers.  Let  us  suppose,  now,  that  a  female  appli ­