Word: haefner
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...always been taught on the presumption that good legible hand writing can be learned in no other way. Last week this theory was flouted (as at a psychologists' meeting was flouted the more modern theory that punishment is bad for chil dren-see p. 22) by Dr. Ralph Haefner of Columbia University in a book* based upon studies by Dr. Benjamin De Kalbe Wood of Columbia and Dr. Frank Nugent Freeman of the University of Chicago. For two years these pedagogs experimented with 2,000 typewriters, 14,000 school children and 400 school teachers. Most newsworthy result: that children...