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...Skeels told how he took 13 mentally retarded pre-school infants away from a bleak Iowa orphanage packed with healthy, intelligent moppets, and placed them in a home for feeble-minded girls. The inmates lavished upon the deficient babies a wealth of feeble-minded love. They made them toys, watched them play, gave them plenty of room to run around. Within two years, to the psychologist's amazement, the intelligence quotients of twelve of the orphans rose sharply, in some cases as much as 40 points, and they appeared superior in intelligence to their playmates in the asylum. Later...
...Vocabulary of Samuel Sewall from 1673 to 1699. ¶ Life After Death. ¶ Laughing and Crying of Pre-School Children. ¶How Christmas Came to the Sunday Schools...
...question was admitted by Testers Terman and Merrill without being tried out by seven field investigators on some 3,000 schoolchildren scattered over the U. S. To keep the children standard the investigators ruled out schools in tenement neighborhoods, swank suburban academies, the entire pre-school group of children in Colorado who for some reason tested too high. Some questions had to be discarded. Tester Terman found, for instance, that a picture of a cat with two legs did not always seem absurd to smart children. Nor could they agree sufficiently on: What can scissors and knife do that spoons...
...youngsters began babbling about themselves as soon as they could talk, kept it up in a great four-year crescendo. At the age of 2 their chief interest outside themselves was in objects. By the time they were 6, that external interest had shifted largely to persons. "The pre-school child," Dr. Fisher reported, "is a confirmed egotist and extremely sociable. He satisfies both needs by talking incessantly to other people, telling them whatever he happens to be doing at the moment...
There will be a meeting of the Society of Harvard Dames this afternoon in Phillips Brooks House at 3 o'clock. Mrs. E. H. Schell and Mrs. L. V. Friedman will make addresses on "Pre-School Education...