News And Comment
The Department of Child-Study and Pedagogic Investigation of the Chicago Public Schools is, during the present year, devoting three days a week to the practical work of establishing accurate classifications of the subnormal children in the schools. The remainder of the time is spent in the laboratory giving a psyclio-physical examination to those children who require special training or treatment in the school system those to be entered in the rooms for deaf, blind, crippled and subnormal children, truants and incorrigibles for the parental school, normal children with individual peculiarities, and in addition for the juvenile court, certain cases of delinquency and dependency.
Dr Charles Hubbard Judd, the author of “Genetic Psychology foi Teachers,” has been promoted to be Professor of Psychology at Yale University.
Dr Ernst Meumann has been called to the chair of Philosophy at Miinster. Professor Meumann is one of the ablest of Wundt’s pupils, a graduate of the Laboratory of Psychology at Leipzig. As the editor of “Archiv fur die Gesamte Psychologic,” he has made this representative psychological periodical an important medium for the report of investigations in Child Psychology. The Fourth National Conference on the Education of Backward, Truant and Delinquent Children will be held at Minneapolis, Minn., commencing Monday, June 10, 1907, and continuing until Wednesday evening, June 12, 1907. The School of Pedagogy of the New York University has established a course of lectures on the Education of Defectives. Among the lecturers are: Elias G. Brown, Department of Physical Education, New York City; Martin W. Barr, Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children; E. R. Johnson, Superintendent of the New Jersey Training School for Feeble-Minded Boys and Girls; Walter E. Fernald, Superintendent of the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, Waverly, Mass.; Luther M. Gulick, Director of Physical Education in Public Schools of New York; James P. Haney, Director of Education in Manual Arts in Manhattan and the Bronx; Alexander Johnson, Lecturer in New York School of Philanthropy; Thomas M. Balliet, Dean of the School of Pedagogy, New York University. The Second International Congress of School Hygiene is to be held August 5-10, 1907, at the Royal Sanitary Institute, Margaret Street, London, W. There will be a section devoted to the Physiology and Psychology of Educational Methods and Work.
Dr Shepherd Ivory Franz has accepted the position of Psychologist at the Government Hospital for the Insane, Washington. He will also fill the Professorship of Physiology in the George Washington University.
The Netherlands Psychiatry and Neurology Society is organizing an International Congress on Psychiatry, Neurology, Psychology and the Nursing of Lunatics, to be held at Amsterdam, September 2 to 7, 1907. A circular inviting co-operation has been issued to psychologists, psychiatrists and neurologists in this country. Anyone taking an interest in psychology, psychiatry, neurology or the nursing of lunatics may become a member of the Congress, for which the membership fee is sixteen shillings eight pence. Members intending to present papers aro requested to send a synopsis before the 1st of May, 1907, to the secretary’s office, who will see to the printing and translation thereof and will hold copies at the disposal of each member of the Congress. Information concerning the Congress may be had by addressing the General Secretary’s office, Prinsengracht 717, Amsterdam.
A public kindergarten for children with abnormal speech was opened October 17, 1905, at Frankfort-on-Main, Germany. This is the beginning of a movement that it is hoped will grow to some proportions. One cannot begin too early in the child’s life to diagnose the causes and attempt the correction of speech defects.
Mr. George Herbert Locke, recently Dean of the College of Education of the University of Chicago, and editor of “School Review,” has been appointed Dean of the School for Training of Teachers, in the Macdonald College, founded by Sir William Macdonald, and affiliated with the McGill University, Montreal.
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