The Psychological Clinic: A Journal for the Study and Treatment of Mental Retardation and Deviation, Volume 9Lightner Witmer Psychological Clinic Press, 1916 - Child development Vols. 1-12 include section "Reviews and criticism." |
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Page 96 - Anyone interested in a little deaf child can obtain free literature explaining approved methods of training deaf children from infancy to school age by writing to The Volta Bureau for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge Relating to the Deaf. 1601 Thirty-fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC This literature relates only to the training of little deaf children; not to medical treatment nor to the deafness that comes in later life. Age of child and other details are welcomed.
Page 219 - Two sets of prizes, to be known as the Seabury Prizes, are offered for the best essays on one of the following subjects : 1. The opportunity and duty of the schools in the international peace movement.
Page 274 - Of what practical measure could the modern sanitarian avail himself to alleviate the poverty of that class of our population which most needs sanitation? It is evident that this poverty is principally due to low wages ; that low wages in modern communities are principally due to the fact that there are many more men competing for work than there are jobs to divide among these men. To alleviate this poverty two methods are possible, either a measure directed toward decreasing the number of men competing...
Page 235 - Results are given in tables I and II. Table I gives the average number of errors for each group.
Page 85 - I now saw that any being gifted by God with reason sins against the goodness of his Creator when he allows himself to be led like an ox by any other human being;" and he adds: "I determined to shut my eyes against the brightness of human authority, and to give no more thought to the question, who supports any doctrine, but simply to the grounds on which it is supported.
Page 56 - Intelligence is a general capacity of an individual consciously to adjust his thinking to new requirements: it is general mental adaptability to new problems and conditions of life.
Page 187 - ... population. The state superintendent will use any method he desires in determining the best essays from his state, and will send the ten best essays from his state to our office. We, in turn, will have these essays rated and the prizes awarded accordingly. These essays are to be on the general subject of Thrift, the idea being to draw out the children's ideas on the subject without any suggestion as to methods by which the same should be treated. Essays will be limited to one thousand words....
Page 219 - ... inches. Manuscripts not easily legible will not be considered. The name of the writer must not appear on the essay, which should be accompanied by a letter giving the writer's name, school, and home address, and sent to Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews, Secretary, American School Citizenship League, 405 Marlborough Street, Boston, Mass., not later than March 15, 1920.
Page 274 - ... can be accomplished by sanitation. "Before these great results that we can all now see are possible for the sanitarian, we shall have to alleviate more or less the poverty at present existing in all civilized communities. Poverty is the greatest of all breeders of disease and the stone-wall against which every sanitarian must finally impinge. "During the last ten years of my sanitary work I have thought much on this subject. Of what practical measure could the modern sanitarian avail himself...
Page 107 - No two persons have just the same endowment. Looking at their heredity, we should expect people to be far more dissimilar and individual than we actually find them to be. The aligning power | of association triumphs over diversity of temperament and experience. There ought to be as many religious creeds as there are , human beings; but we find people ranged under a few great religions. It is the same in respect to dress, diet, pastimes, or moral ideas. The individuality each has received from the...