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...Journal of the American Medical Association. He declared that it was often the inept tactics of just such wailing overanxious parents that keep the child awake and derange its nervous system. "I know nothing more pitiful," said he, "than the frequently precocious child brought up in the adult atmosphere of the typical family hotel." He classified two common varieties of harmful parents...
...Oklahoma was presented with an adult kangaroo as mascot...
...Library, onetime (1923) Association President, who had brought the convention to his city, looked busily to all details. Some points made: 60 million U. S. citizens have no library facilities; librarians must go into politics properly to serve the .public; library wagons and traveling libraries help educate the populace ; adult education should begin with antievolutionists; the old library idea was "culture," the new is "information"-let libraries enlarge that part of their service which furnishes printed matter dealing chiefly with downright fact, i.e., newspapers, magazines, commercial and scientific books...
Milk, said Homeopath John P. Sutherland, is fitted to serve as a food only during infancy. One species does not lend itself to the use of the milk of another except when the two are very closely related. It is not a particularly good food for the adult of any species. A number of Allopaths promptly came to the support of milk through the press ?declared that it was a most valuable food...
...your issue of May 11, under EDUCATION, you attribute this statement to Dr. Kennedy of Cornell University: "Remember your child is an adult in miniature." If this is an accurate quotation, then I want to take sides against Dr. Kennedy. After an advanced study of the child at the University of Michigan, it seemed that the weight of opinion was that the child is not a miniature adult. The child may be a rudimentary adult but, from the standpoint of the psychologist, the child undergoes a decided change before it becomes an adult. The adult is not an enlargement...