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 unneces 
sary 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 par 
ticular 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