Word: adults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...mistakes. . . . Most people like to be thought out of the common, and if a youngster finds he can acquire a reputation for eccentricity by refusing to take his food or lying down and kicking, he will do so in and out of season. . . . Remember your child is an adult in miniature with an intense emotional life which is trying experiments through his waking hours. And these experiments are egotistical-the child is quite as important to himself as you are to yourself...