The Psychological Clinic: A Journal for the Study and Treatment of Mental Retardation and Deviation, Volume 2Lightner Witmer Psychological Clinic Press, 1909 - Child development Vols. 1-12 include section "Reviews and criticism." |
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Page 301 - The said bureau shall investigate and report to said Department upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents and diseases of children employment, legislation affecting children in the several States and Territories.
Page 226 - For the principle of conciliation and arbitration in industrial dissensions ; "For the protection of the worker from dangerous machinery, occupational disease, injuries, and mortality; "For the abolition of child labor; "For such regulation of the conditions of toil for women as shall safeguard the physical and moral health of the community; "For the suppression of the 'sweating system...
Page 226 - The Churches must stand: For equal rights and complete justice for all men in all stations of life. For the protection of the family, by the single standard of purity, uniform divorce laws, proper regulation of marriage, and proper housing.
Page 226 - For a release from employment one day in seven. "For a living wage as a minimum in every industry, and for the highest wage that each industry can afford. "For the most equitable division of the products of industry that can ultimately be devised. "For suitable provision for the old age of the workers and for those incapacitated by injury. "For the abatement of poverty.
Page 296 - ... sensual) optimism on the other. All depends on the character of the personal contribution x. Wherever the facts to be formulated contain such a contribution, we may logically, legitimately, and inexpugnably believe what we desire. The belief creates its verification.
Page 301 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be established in the Department of Commerce and Labor a bureau to be know as the Children's Bureau.
Page 226 - For the gradual and reasonable reduction of the hours of labor to the lowest practicable point, and for that degree of leisure for all which is a condition of the highest human life.
Page 27 - ... for want of facts" over inquiry controversy. National municipal review, 2: 93-99, January 1913. Preceded on p. 88-93 of same periodical by a general article on the New York school inquiry controversy. The report in question, by Prof. EC Moore, may be found in the issue for November 13, 1912, of the City record, the official journal of the city of New York. 239. Finegan, Thomas E. The organization of city school systems. American education, 16: 175-80, 224-28, December 1912, January 1913. "An...
Page 100 - ... doing things. Even in cultivating the instincts of play and pleasure, we must aim to make as attractive as possible those games and diversions which require decision and action, and carry with them a prompt demand for correction of mistakes...
Page 98 - ... the Anglo-Saxon superiority. It must be remembered that thought at its very best is only a link in a chain of events leading up to some final achievement. Its real and lasting fulfilment is found only in action. Janet has constructed an interesting hierarchy of mental functions. His study of psychasthenia* brings him to the conviction that complete action is the most difficult and highest function. I am tempted to add that completed action is the first essential for rest and for beginning something...