Word: kellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Keller B. Breland of Hot Springs, Ark. is a psychologist who applies modern scientific methods to training and understanding animals. The traditional training methods, he believes, are mostly wrong. Punishment and threats work only with such relatively "stupid" animals as horses. Praise is no good except with dogs. For most animals, the best system is an immediate reward of food, given for an action repeated over and over. Even bird-brained chickens and harebrained rabbits can be deeply conditioned by often-repeated rewards...
...Keller took Pennsylvania's other victory in the three meter dive...
...Cris Keller, "the best three-meter diver Penn has ever had," according to Crimson coach Hal Ulen, may well take a first. Walt Herman, with a five-minute 440, and Dan Steinman, with a 23.9 50-yard sprint, are the other Quaker therats...
Before setting off on a 40,000-mile tour of the Far East, Helen Keller, 74, whose senses have steadily quickened ever since she was struck blind, deaf and dumb in childhood, was guest of honor at a farewell banquet in Manhattan, where she received through her fingers the words of a greeting from Eleanor Roosevelt. In the Orient, Dr. Keller will plug for expanded facilities for the physically handicapped...
...wrote Gertrude Stein, '97, "Gertrude Stein having been in Baltimore for a winter and having become more humanised and less adolescent and less lonesome went to Radcliffe." Two years later, Josephine Sherwood (The Solid Gold Cadillac) Hull followed; then came Helen Keller, '04, Novelists Rachel Field, '18, and Helen Howe, '27, and a host of scholars and scientists. But to all these brilliant entrances and exits, Harvard itself chose to pretend indifference...