Word: kindergarten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother said her little girl visited her grandparents and came home with a prayer taught her by her grandmother, which the mother felt was a merited rebuke. Another said her child learned little prayers and grace at table at the kindergarten or preschool, which relieved her very much as she wanted her child to pray but had not taught her any prayers because she did not like "Now, I lay me" and thought the Lord's Prayer too long and difficult lor a child...
Words are among the first things an individual learns and among the last he forgets. Each year that one goes to school, from kindergarten to college, he acquires new sets of words. These sets are measurements of his intelligence, or his "vocabulary age." To get norms by which to gauge the demented, Dr. Babcock tested nurses, doctors, Harvard students, maids, clerks and others rated non-psychotic as samples of the run of mankind...
Engagement Denied.By Elisabeth Morrow, kindergarten teacher, eldest daughter ofU. S. Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow, once reported engaged to Charles Augustus Lindbergh* and Rev. Clyde H. Roddy, widower, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of North Arlington, N. J. (ten miles from the Morrow home...
...shares; New York Society for Relief of Ruptured & Crippled, 35 shares; Nanking (China) M. E. Theological Seminary, 35 shares; M. E. Church Home, Manhattan, 4 shares; National Society for Prevention of Blindness, 5 shares; S. P. C. A. of New York, 5 shares; Northfield Schools, Mass., 3 shares; National Kindergarten Association, 2 shares; Dobbs Ferry (N. Y.) Hospital Association, 2 shares; Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan, 2 shares; S. P. C. A. of Massachusetts, 1 share; M. E. Church, Irvington, N. Y., 1 share...
...innocents remains an undetermined factor. To make such a survey fair and just, and free from political corruption, moreover, is a task for the infant Hercules. But in a moment of hasty judgment, seizing on boldness, here is the advice. Let the research workers and the parents enter the kindergarten, and some youthful prodigy, it may be warranted, will make a survey to startle the world...