Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-07

discussed by members of the Home and
school Association of that school at a
recent meeting: At the. suggestion of
H. A. Boston, the principal, Washing
ton health rules were read. An adj
dress on Health is to be delivered by
Dr. $. S. Thompson at the next meeting.
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Charles NJ. Thomas, teacher of psy-
choiogy and education in the Miner
Normal School, Fridav afternoon gave
,, the first of series of monthly dem
onstrations of the application of sci
entinc measurement to intelligence.
me demonstration was given at the
Simmons School before teachers of the
ungraded schools. under Dr. w. S.
montgomery, supervising principal. He
pointed out that children of ungraded
schools were backward, atypical, in
corrigible or defective from causes
mental. social or mixed. and that the
teachers could do little except in in
direct ways by agitating eugenics ideas
, to correct the first; they could summon
medical attendance and nursing while
they applied hygiene to the second;
could stimulate mental activity by a
mixture of kindergarten and vocational
activities with varying amount of
instruction in the formal school stud
les, but that correction of social con-
ditions would depend upon the strong,
cultured, sympathetic personality OF
the teacher who could induce respect,
fondness and love.
The speaker said that the loose des-
ignation of ungraded children must
give way to more exact determination
of the variation from the normal chill
dren of the same age group by meas
urement In physical conditions, native
reactions and intelligence. He demon
strated the difference between the
Yerkes-Bridges scale for testing intel
ligence, recently published, and the
former revisions of the Binet-simon
system, as made by Dr. GODDARD OF
of Johns Hopkins. Application of the
scale to the measurement of the chill
dren in the ungraded schools will be
made at subsequent meetings.
Children who are clearly defective are
institutional and not public school
problems, he said, and a community
owes it to the average child to see that
these designations are recognized and
provided for.
R. A. Boston. principal of the Garri-
son School, has organized a Model
Girls Club, composed of eighth grade
girls. This is to be under the super
school. 1t is planned through this club
to make the girls models of deport-
ment for the children of the lower
grades, both in school and out 1t is
their mothers their most confidential
friends. If the girls club proves it's use
it will be extended to the lower grades
George Washington University Notes
DR.. A. K. P. Harvey has presented the
physics department of the college of
engineering one-thousand-two-h hun
dred-dollar static electric machine
equipped with twelve plates and a
starting motor.
Miss Eleanor Stanton, sophomore stu
dent. has been pledged to membership
in Pi Beta Phi Sorority.
Miss Elizabeth Wilbur and Miss Hes
ter Munger. students in Columbian Col
Iege. recently were guests of Phi Beta
Phi Sorority at Randolph Macon Col
lege.
Miss Lyle Rush, sophomore student,
who last year attended the University
Of Wisconsin, has been repledged to
mem bership in Pi Beta Phi Sorority.
Allison Chaplin. James Abbott and Mr..
Peters have been pledged by Kappa
Alpha.
College, John Fulton Carmody of the
pre-medical class and Oscar Avelin
Jackson of Columbian College have
been pledged by Phi Sigma Kappa.
Miss Elizabeth Wilbur, daughter Of
Dean William Allen Wilbur of Column
bian College, recently participated in
a musical at the Maryland Alpha Chap
ter of Pi Beta Phi at Goucher
Members of Phi Mu Sorority recently