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...surgeons took away in all 60 sq. in. of Norman Douglas' skull, preserved them at the Toronto General Hospital. They are proof for a professional paper that Dr. Gaby is writing. Never before, so far as the two surgeons can learn from the medical literature, has an adult lost so much skull and lived. Nor children. Sometimes a baby is born without a skull top, dead...
...minorities convened in Chicago last week and accomplished just about as little as several hundred adult citizens could possibly have accomplished had they set out purposely to be futile for several days...
...discussing the environment offered by the nursery school, Miss Johnson insiders the child's activities and materials, his relation to other children and to adults, and his introduction to language and rhythm. She explains now the nursery goes about its attempt to scale civilization down to the child level in its behavior demands and to open up wider opportunities for alive exploration than an adult world call afford...
...gigantic hat, he whose shadow has so often swept across the screen of the University, has come from Hollywood, and he has shown that the mania for handling big receptions in a big way is not a growth that flowers only in the adult mind. The germ is implanted in the child's first consciousness, and flourishes from that time on. But though the mature can claim no monopoly in its possession, they alone are able to release it install its dazzling light. The top hats, the mile-long parade, and the tons of confetti are theirs alone...
...first necessity of the juvenile court is "to treat the offender by the scientific investigation of the mental, environmental and physical antecedents which might have led up to the anti-social act." Judge Ben Lindsey, and less interviewed magistrates, have proved such procedure practicable. And there is in the adult criminal enough mutability to make the use of human and scientific understanding in the handling of him no longer a something not to be postponed...