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[131] Blascoer, Frances, Colored School Children in New York, Public Education Association of the City of New York, 1915. The preface, from which the quotation is taken, is by Eleanor Hope Johnson, chairman of the committee on hygiene of school children.
[132] Mecklin, op. cit., p. 32.
[133] The Negro's contribution has perhaps been most noteworthy in music. This does not necessarily show advanced evolution; August Weismann long ago pointed out that music is a primitive accomplishment. For an outline of what the Negro race has achieved, particularly in America, see the Negro Year Book, Tuskegee Institute, Ala.
[134] Social Problems; Their Treatment, Past, Present and Future, p. 8, London, 1912.
[135] Stetson, G. R., "Memory Tests on Black and White Children," Psych. Rev., 1897, p. 285. See also MacDonald, A., in Rep. U. S. Comm. of Educ., 1897-98.
[136] Mayo, M. J., "The Mental Capacity of the American Negro," Arch. of Psych., No. 28.
[137] Phillips, B. A., "Retardation in the Elementary Schools of Philadelphia," Psych. Clinic, VI, pp. 79-90; "The Binet Tests Applied to Colored Children," ibid., VIII, pp. 190-196.
[138] Strong, A. C., Ped. Sem., XX, pp. 485-515.
[139] Pyle, W. H., "The Mind of the Negro Child," School and Society, I, pp. 357-360.