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old way was to call them dullards, to punish them, 

 to shame them out of the school, to humiliate their 

 parents. The new method of dealing with such chil- 

 dren calls for scientific measures. First, the exact 

 conditions are ascertained by experts; second, the 

 parents are urged and helped to provide for the child 

 more sleep, better food, more fresh air in the living 

 chambers, more recreation, a relief from over-work, 

 or some special medical care as the particular case 

 may demand. 



If one wishes full evidence of the effective gain for 

 studentship that results from the new manner of 

 treatment of the dull and backward pupil, let him 

 examine the many reports of individual cases as pub- 

 lished in the Psychological Clinic at the University 

 of Pennsylvania, especially the issues of 1909-1910. 

 The indifference or the thoughtlessness of country 

 parents may easily allow for the existence of the 

 foregoing bad physical conditions in the case of their 

 own daughter, and as a result her otherwise promis- 

 ing life may become permanently blighted. 



LESSONS IN MUSIC AND ART 



The ordinary farmer needs to learn to take more 

 pride in his daughter and in her accomplishments. 

 The time will come when he will be far more proud 

 of her wealth of character than he will be of her wealth 

 of material goods. A country father of moderate 

 means bought a first-class piano for his two girls and 



