 It broadened its curricula to meet requirements of university and professional preliminaries, and inaugurated office training in shorthand and typewriting.This office training course was considerably aided by certain inventions of office equipment such as the cyclostyle invented by David Gestetner in 1881; was paper for typewriting copies, introduced in 1888; and in 1899, the rotary method of copying introduced by Roneo.In 1892, a preliminary examination for entrance to Scottish universities was constituted.