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Excerpt from Adolescence, Vol. 1: Its Psychology This book is based on the author's Psychology, now in preparation, which should logically have been published first. The standpoint of the latter is roughly and provisionally indicated in Chapter X, with which it is hoped any reader with philosophic interests will begin. This point of view is further set forth in the last part Of Chapter XVI, and some of its' implications appear in Chapter XII,...

Excerpt from How to Teach Reading, and What to Read in SchoolPronounced with it as a syllable, e.g., 6, was played by the child, who said dé, it could, as a reward, bite an apple, see a picture, smell a ¿ower, etc. In his school-bakery, sweet cakes, and even bread, were baked in the form of letters, and the most doltish child soon learned to call 'for a large gingerbread 20 instead of the small 2, and usually graduated from an alphabet diet of...

Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 15: A Quarterly International Record of Educational Literature Institutions and Progress, 1908 While, of course, these stages cannot be marked by definite periods, they serve to indicate a natural line of review in treating of some of the questions arising from racial intercourse. It is the purpose of this paper, after briefly reviewing the conditions and results of the earlier phases, as exemplifie...

Excerpt from The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 18 As to the origin of the Black Death, there are various opin ions. Not a few writers have considered it a special punish ment sent by the Almighty because of the wickedness of the world, others have thought that the plague was created in the beginning, and that there has been no break in it since, still others think it unnecessary to assume that the Black Death (or the plague in any form...

Excerpt from Senescence: The Last Half of Life Loughlin, who has not only typed and read the proof of all the book but has been of great assistance in finding references and made many helpful suggestions. 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 technolo...

Excerpt from Morale: The Supreme Standard of Life and Conduct The first draft of nearly half this present volume was printed in the Psychological Bulletin (vol. XV, N o. This part was somewhat radically revised, and the substance of the volume as it now stands was given in weekly lectures in Clark University during the year 1918-19. I 'hope that this concise survey of these very diverse fields may be considered as a plea for a new and more i...

Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 18: A Quarterly International Record of Educational Literature Institutions and Progress, 1911 Suppose that you were asked to characterize the American people by means of a few broad generalizations. What would you say? It would depend upon your age and experience. If you were young and quick witted a few brilliant dashes of color would suffice to complete the picture, if older and more wary you wou...

Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 19: A Quarterly International Record of Educational Literature Institutions and Progress, 1912 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 for...

Excerpt from Aspects of Child Life: And Education and Some of His PupilsThe Boston study was made possible by the generosity of Mrs. Pauline Agassiz Shaw, the founder of the kindergarten system of that city, and by the devoted labors of four of the best of her experts, headed by Miss S. E. Wiltse and Miss L. H. Symonds, who under my direction devoted months of careful and conscientious work to collecting the material. This paper has been repub...

Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 25: A Quarterly International Records of Educational Literature Institutions and Progress Feeble-mindedness may be defined as a phenomenon of imperfect and arrested mental development. When we say a person is feeble-minded, we mean that his mental power has failed to reach its normal development, he lacks something in his mental make-up, and he can not learn even though he is placed in a very favora...

Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 29: A Quarterly International Record of Educational Literature Institutions and Progress, 1922 The data here discussed consist of radiographs of the hands and wrists of 402 Minneapolis and St. Paul school children, varying in age from 5¿ to 11¿ years, inclusive. A record of the number of permanent teeth was also made, except in the case of the children constituting the 10¿-year group. Individual int...

Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 28: A Quarterly International Record of Educational Literature Institutions and Progress One of the first things which strikes the observer of children and adults alike is what seems a universal tendency to do as others do, to imitate. Everywhere may be seen examples of action apparently done not because the individual has himself decided that such an action fits the particular situation but because...

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...