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Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 16: A Quarterly International Record of Educational Literature Institutions and Progress The vocabularies of children have such obvious psychological and pedagogical interest that we deem it scarcely necessary to apologize for adding another to the already numerous lists that have been published, particularly since we ourselves have been greatly aided in our observation of the linguistic development...

Excerpt from Hints Toward a Select and Descriptive Bibliography of Education: Arranged by Topics and Indexed by Authors To do this, however, not only is some hardihood of self denial, but also some knowledge of the good and evil in pedagogic print, needed, and just this is what American teachers are at present seeking in more ways, I believe, than ever before. In seeking the best there is much to mislead and little to guide teachers. About t...

Excerpt from The American Journal of Psychology, 1902, Vol. 13 1. Introductory. What relation, if any, exists between the fluctuations of the judgment of time intervals and vaso-motor waves as shown by a finger plethysmograph? There were several suggestive facts that pointed to such a relationship. The plotted results of practice experiments in the estimation of intervals, made during the previous year, showed a fairly well defined tendency t...

Excerpt from The American Journal of Psychology, 1906, Vol. 17 Adding digits in isolated pairs differs greatly from adding digits in series. The time in the latter case is by no means as even as Arnett's results would seem to indicate.' A wide range of variation is usually present. The average times per digit added were as follows: Kn, sec, K, L, J, T, B, Average range of variation per digit added Kn, 37, K. 67, L. 36, J. 45: T, 59: B, 39. A...

Excerpt from The American Journal of Psychology, 1909, Vol. 20Monthly Weather Review, xxiv., Dec., 454-456. [these sun strokes are not caused by the traditional high relative humidity. References.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally...

Excerpt from The American Journal of Religious Psychology and Education, Vol. 2: March, 1906 June, 1907 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections ...

Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 6: An International Record of Educational Literature, Institutions and ProgressJackson's theory is thoroughly evolutionary in its essential conceptions. What are the lowest levels, says Jackson, are centers for the simplest movements of the limbs, which become evolved, in the highest centers, into the physical basis of volition. What in the lowest levels are centers for simple re¿ex action of the eye...

Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 17: A Quarterly International Record of Educational Literature Institutions and Progress, 1910 Wherever sexes in nature are diclinous, the individuals of one sex compete with those of the other. This is a sound state of things from the point of view of selection. But with the human race it seems as if in the centres of civilization the sexes as such engage in a struggle for life. Whether that promis...

Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 8: A Quarterly International Record of Educational Literature, Institution and ProgressSuperintendent Johnson's study of children's teeth gives an account of the present state of the question, and adds important personal contributions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an impor...

Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 12: A Quarterly International Record of Educational Literature, Institutions and Progress The educational value of the different high school studies has received considerable attention in recent years, not only in this country but also, and even more so, in Germany. This question is of special interest when the importance and the pre-eminence of certain school studies is questioned with the idea tha...

Excerpt from Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene I have often been asked to select and epitomize the practical and especially the pedagogical conclusions of my large volumes on Adolescence, published in 1904, in such form that they may be available at a minimum cost to parents, teachers, reading circles, normal schools, and college classes, by whom even the larger volumes have been often used. This, with the coiiperation of the pub lis...

Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 13: A Quarterly International Record of Educational Literature, Institution and Progress I. Keeping Well. Personal Hygiene is as old as civilization. Indeed savages give some attention to it. There is a universal interest in health. The great need of health in the individual for efficiency, morality and happiness, and in the race for its development and larger life, has stimulated this study. As ...

Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 26: A Quarterly International Record of Educational Literature Institutions and Progress Sam stepped on the scales and registered a weight of 62 pounds. He was 53 inches tall. According to norms established by the investigations of Burk, Boas, etc., he should have weighed approximately 69 pounds. He was seven pounds underweight, that is, he was over 10% lighter than he should have been when compared...

Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 23: A Quarterly International Record of Educational Literature Institutions and Progress, 1916 For a considerable period the writer has had occasion to interest himself in certain aspects of the progress that within the past ten or twelve years has characterized training for the profession of teaching as given by state normal schools. To the end that such progress might be evaluated from something l...

Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 24: A Quarterly International Record of Educational Literature Institution and Progress There is perhaps no more important problem for education than that of the physiological development of children during the school age. It would seem that the rate of growth sets a limit to learning beyond which the skill of the teacher can not go. For since the work of Porter (20) there has been good reason to be...

Excerpt from The Seminary, Vol. 21: A Quarterly International Record of Educational Literature Institutions and Progress, 1914 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst r...

Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 27: A Quarterly International Records of Educational Literature Institutions and Progress, 1920 It is a remarkable thing that we know little about the most fundamental processes in our daily life, activities vital and essential to our health and happiness. Particularly is this true of the phenomenon of sleep. All sorts of theories have prevailed in regard to it, some of them absurd, some of the rece...

Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 4: An International Record of Educational Literature, Institutions and Progress, 1896 97 With the present number the Pedagogical Seminary enters upon its fourth volume, and with a larger circulation and better prospects than ever before. The policy of excluding advertisements, printing at irregular intervals, or whenever enough matter of the kind desired is at hand, disadvantageous as both are from ...

Excerpt from The Story of a Sand-Pile Trade centered in the grocery store, of which Jack was one proprietor, the name of the puppet he repre sented being painted on the sign. A toy watch was hung in the gable to represent the clock over F aneuil Hall Market, and a clay watch dog was on guard by night. Cans of pickles were put up, partridge and huckleberries, in small glass bottles, candy was sold by the barrel, tomatoes were represented by re...

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