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22 Leading periodicals and newspapers, including the Literary Digest, Independent, Current Literature, Educational Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Chicago Tribune, and Minneapolis Journal, wer prompt to approve the work of the Board and to adopt some of its recommendations.

General Progress

In the course of the next 7 years the Board issued and freely distributed 3 more lists of recommended spellings; an Alfabetic List of all the words included in the first 3 lists; and 21 other circulars, setting forth arguments for the reform of English spelling, written by eminent men in various callings.

It appointed many volunteer Local Agents; supplied speakers of note to make public addresses; organized a leag of periodicals and newspapers and began in 1909 the quarterly publication of the Simplified Spelling Bulletin, to serv as a medium of news and discussion.

By these and other legitimate means of publicity the Board gaind additional thousands of adherents, counting among them a great many members of the faculties of American universities, colleges, and normal scools; teachers in elementary and high scools; professional and business men. A gratifying number of institutions of higher learning formally approved the movement, and adopted the use of simplified spellings in their official publications and correspondence. Scool sistems in many cities and towns granted permission to teach the simpler spellings in their clasrooms; and the authors of several spelling-books included the recommendations of the Board iether in the main text or in an appendix. Commercial firms and corporations in great numbers, and many of them of high reputa -