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...deficient for special treatment, deal with individuals of unusual traits, adjust our teaching or our schools to the various levels of development, or handle our human material with maximum effectiveness at all, unless we can become more certain in our judgements concerning individual cases," says Professor W. F. Dearborn, who is in charge of the project, in a report outlining its scope. We ought to be able to study any given child as an individual in the light of comprehensive knowledge of individual growth...
Hundreds of children are now being examined by Professor Dearborn and his staff at the psycho-educational clinic at the University, which has been specializing for several years in the measurement of intelligence and the testing of school accomplishment. Each child is given intelligence tests (group and individual); has his school accomplishment measured by means of standardized tests in reading and arithmetic; and has his teacher's judgments and observations of the above recorded. His height, weight, and bodily proportions are also measured; his physical condition is observed; his teeth are examined to see how the process of dentition...
...Junior High school and plans for the reorganization of secondary education, will be omitted this year. Education B, educational psychology and mental hygiene; and Education B26, problems in mental and physical development, will be given by Professor R. M. Ogden of Cornell University, instead of by Professor W. F. Dearborn, while Education M14, the teaching of music in schools, will be given by Mr. A. D. Zonzig with the cooperation of Professor A. T. Davison '06 and Mr. T. W. Surette...
Professor Dearborn, in the Alumni Bulletin, goes even further to show that education is, in part at least, responsible for criminality which has always been attributed to heredity. President Cutten of Colgate takes up the attack at this point and switches the responsibility of education back to citizenship, for education is the one means of developing intelligence and intelligence is the logical basis of all suffrage. President Cutten claims that democracy is a delusion in that general suffrage is the "greatest and most popular failure." He sees a solution only in some practical form of an intelligence test for every...
...attend the first meetings of their courses. An asterisk after the number of a course means that a student must have the consent or recommendation of the instructor in order to elect it. ELECTIVE STUDIES Economics 37* Tues., Oct. 4, at 9 Widener U Education B21-22* Consult Pofessor Dearborn Palfrey House Egyptology 1 Consult Professor Reisner English D Tues., Oct. 4, at 1.05 Sever 35 47* Consult Professor Baker 47a* Consult Professor Baker 59hf* Tues., Oct. 4, at 2.30 Sever 6 Greek 3hf Tues., Oct. 4, at 2.30 Sever 26 7hf Tues., Oct. 4, at 2.30 Sever 14 History...