II. The School Child
[41]. The Handwriting on the Wall, by J. C. Cooper, p. 222.
[42]. Education and the Larger Life, by C. Hanford Henderson, p. 85.
[43]. Poverty, by Robert Hunter, p. 11.
[44]. Hunter, op. cit., p. 216.
See also Mr. Hunter’s article, The Heritage of the Hungry, in the Reader Magazine, September, 1905.
[45]. Address to the National Educational Association, September 24, 1904, as reported in the newspapers.
[46]. See Dr. Warner’s excellent little books, Mental Faculty; The Study of Children; The Nervous System of the Child, for a discussion of nervous signs and the whole subject of child health.
[47]. The tendency of children to give such answers has been frequently noted and pointed out by foreign investigators. In general, I think it can safely be said that children are prone to hide their poverty and to exaggerate in an opposite direction.
[48]. Report to State Board of Charities. R. Hunter, The Heritage of the Hungry.
[49]. The Hunger Problem in the Public Schools—What the Canvass of Six Big Cities Reveals. Special correspondence in the Philadelphia North American, May 21, 1905.
[50]. Idem.
[51]. Idem.
[52]. Idem.
[53]. Testimony before the Interdepartmental Committee on Physical Deterioration, the Royal Commission on Physical Training (Scotland), Reports of the London School Board on Underfed Children, etc.
[54]. Quoted by G. Stanley Hall, in Adolescence.
[55]. Idem.
[56]. Final Report (1882–1883) of the Anthropometric Committee appointed by the British Association in 1875.
[57]. The figures quoted are taken from an excellent little pamphlet, The Cost of Child Labor,—A Study of Diseased and Disabled Children, published by the Child Labor Committee of Pennsylvania.
[58]. Poverty,—A Town Study, by B. S. Rowntree.
[59]. In the pamphlet, The Cost of Child Labor, above referred to.
[60]. Annual Report of the Massachusetts State Board of Health, 1877.
[61]. Growth of St. Louis School Children, by William T. Porter. Report of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, vol. vi, pp. 263–380.
[62]. Special Report of Anthropological Investigation of 1000 white and colored Children of the New York Juvenile Asylum, by Dr. Hrdlicka.
[63]. Report of the Royal Commission on Physical Training (Scotland), p. 30.
[64]. State Maintenance, by J. Hunter Watts, p. 10.
[65]. Adolescence, by G. Stanley Hall.
[66]. Feeble-minded Children in the Public Schools, by Will S. Monroe.
[67]. The Cost of Child Labor, pamphlet quoted above.
[68]. G. Stanley Hall, op. cit., vol. i, p. 401.
[69]. A Study in Youthful Degeneracy, by George E. Dawson, in the Pedagogical Seminary, iv, 2.
[70]. American Journal of Psychology, October, 1898.
[71]. Dr. Eichholz, Evidence before the Interdepartmental Committee on Physical Deterioration.
[72]. Reported in the New York Times, May 10, 1905.
[73]. Overpressure in Elementary Schools, by James Crichton-Browne, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., printed by Order of the House of Commons.
[74]. See Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, February, 1893.
[75]. Hansard’s Debates, 1883.
[76]. Justice, Organ of the Social Democratic Federation, vol. i, No. 35, September 13, 1884.
[77]. Letter to the London Times, September 26, 1901.
[78]. Report of the Committee; Evidence, p. 484.
[79]. Idem.
[80]. Beretning om Kristiania folkeskolevæsen,—various yearly reports.
[81]. School Luncheons in the Special Classes of the Public Schools—A Suggestive Experiment, by Elizabeth Farrell, in Charities, March 11, 1905.
Undernourished School Children, by Lillian Wald, a letter in Charities, March 25, 1905.
[82]. Hungry Children in New York Public Schools, by E. Stagg Whitin, in the Commons, May, 1905.
Hungry Children are Poor Scholars, an unsigned article in the Official Journal of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America, May, 1905.
[83]. See American Charities, by Professor Warner, for a careful statement of this point.
[84]. Sixth Biennial Report of the Board of Control and Superintendent of the Minnesota State Public School for Dependent and Neglected Children.
Other works consulted include: Mentally Deficient Children: Their Care and Training, by George E. Shuttleworth; The History of the Treatment of the Feeble-minded, by Walter E. Fernald; After Bread, Education, by Hubert Bland, 1905; Official Report of the National Labor Conference on the State Maintenance of Children, held at the Guildhall, London, Friday, January 20, 1905, Sir John Gorst, M.P., Presiding; Report of Investigations into Social Conditions in Dundee, Scotland—The Medical Inspection of School Children; Report to the Municipal Council of Paris on the Annual Expenditures in Connection with the Cantines Scolaires; Various Reports of the U. S. Commissioner of Education; Reports of the Department of Education in many American and Foreign Cities.
The Pedagogical Seminary.
Special Reports on Educational Subjects, issued by the Board of Education (England).