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@ John Arnold
2025-02-24 18:48:16
_The Evening Post_, 25 February 1925:
A LOST ART
DETERIORATION IN HAND
WRITING.
The deterioration in the #handwriting of pupils leaving the public #schools was commented on by Mr. J. Morrison, of Christchurch, at to-day’s session of the Accountants’ Convention. “Some of the specimens of handwriting we receive nowadays from applicants for positions,” he said, “are pitiable—almost enough to make one weep tears.” Mr. Morrison recalled that in his youth conditions in teaching handwriting in the schools were very different from what they were to-day. In those days the child was taught how to sit and how to hold the pen and woe betide the youth who happened to be caught sitting in a wrong attitude. “I am very sorry indeed,” he remarked, “that good handwriting has become practically a lost art to-day.”
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