Youth_ Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene - G. Stanley Hall

Miss Williams[8] found that out of 253 young ladies only 133 did not have favorite sounds, [long "a"] and ...

foreign words when English would do as well. Conradi says "the age varies from twelve to eighteen, most ...

one's own business and not meddling or interfering, names for money, absurdity, neurotic effects of surprise ...

and condemned with the curtness sententiousness of proverbs devised by youth to sanctify itself and correct it ...

impulse to widen the vernacular. To pause to learn several foreign equivalents of things of sense may be anti-educ ...

very well"—a case analogous to the typical girl who exclaimed to her teacher, "I can do and understand this ...

are written. The taste for love stories increases steadily to the end of the high school course. Beyond that ...

took place in both sexes, "showing then the beginning of a greater interest in works of a more g ...

different periods of the development of their tastes from the fairy tales of early childhood to the travels an ...

The careful statistics of Dr. Reyer show that the greatest greed of reading is from the age of fifteen to twe ...

and tastes. Suggestive and briefly descriptive lists of best books and authors by authorities in different fields ...

subjects in the curriculum we are in the state of Watts when he gazed at the tea- kettle and began to dre ...

rapidly for the nest two years. Those who chose the despatch because it was true, signed, etc., increased rapidl ...

Studies of mentality, so well advanced for infants and so well begun for lower grades, are still very meager ...

articulation, was best in those pupils whose school standing was highest, and least where standing was ...

found there was loss from six to seven and gain from seven to eight for both sexes. From eight to ...

years of age. The preceding tables show the development of the various kinds of memory for boys and girls: BO ...

remarkable regression for objects in passing from the lowest to the next grade above. In the accuracy of reprodu ...

females and increase for males. At fourteen and fifteen, motor memories nearly culminate for males, but still ...

together. After thirty, unpleasant memories are but little recalled. For the Indians and negroes in this census, ...