Word: blatz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the noted educators who will speak at the meeting are Lewis Perry, principal of the Phillips Exeter Academy; Bancroft Beatly, president of Simmons College, the Reverend Mr. Francis Talbot, editor of "America" William E. Blatz, director of the St. George's School for child Study, University of Toronto; the Reverend Mr. George Johnson, Professor of Education, Catholic University of America, and director of the Department of Education, National Catholic Welfare Conference; Professor Arthur O. Norton, of Wellesley; Mary Ellen Chase, Head of the English Department of Smith College...
...University of Toronto's thin-faced, reticent Dr. William Emet Blatz, who has charge of the Dionne Quintuplets' education, reported his charges were of average intelligence. Their mental growth was retarded by their premature birth, but they are now advancing more rapidly than normal children in everything except language (they are learning both French and English). Dr. Blatz expects that in a year or two their I. Q.'s will be between 95 and 105. He is studying them to seek new light on the "timeworn problem of whether heredity or environment is most important...
...Blatz excused the fact that the Quintuplets are asocial by observing that their lack of contact with other children, except for occasional visits from their older brothers and sisters, is a mental and social handicap. Reported Dorothy A. Millichamp, Dr. Blatz's assistant, who has kept a detailed record of the children's conduct: "The Quints are practically ignorant of life lived by other people, except for rare visits to the hospital kitchen which is a great treat. . . . They were slow to learn bladder control because five commodes on the veranda made going to the toilet a social...
...vocabulary of the children is small and poorly pronounced-because, said Dr. Blatz, the children make adequate signs to one another and are too smart to make needless sounds in addition. According to his practiced eye, "Annette is the social climber, Yvonne the mother, Cecile the unknown quantity, Emilie the happy-go-lucky, and Marie (smallest) the sympathetic...
...Blatz concluded the meeting with a cheerful joke at the expense of the 250 busy people who had come to his party. Said he: "The data we collected about these children can be used to prove that individuality is due to heredity. The data can also prove that individuality is due to environment. . . ." Whereupon, the child-students proceeded to Callander, where through glass and wire mesh, they could see Y-A-C-E-M in the flesh...