The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-28
SCIENTISTS meet
American Psychological AssO-
citation at Chicago Today.
Will Join Pan-American Con-
gress at Washington Jan. 8.

Chicago, Dec. 2s.-Savants whose
researches have to do largely with the
idiosyncratic manifestations of the in
tellect gathered here today for the
Geological associations twenty-fourth
annual meeting. The convention,
which is being held at the University
of Chicago, will hold sessions today,
tomorrow and Thursday and then ad-
| journ for a joint session with the So
Geological Medicine section of the Pan
American Scientific congress, which
affair is to be held in Washington,
January 8. 1916.
No less than eighty papers are to be
read at the Chicago convention. The
contributors come from all the leading
universities of the country, from small
colleges with a comparatively local
sphere of influence and from public
and private laboratories, and other in
Stitutions.
The subjects vary from technical
discussions of such subjects as 1.-The
Place of the Conditional Reflex in
Psychology" and THE Etiology of
Monaghan Idiocy" to reports on Men
Mattresses, Maids. Factory Operators
and Saleswomen;" 1.-The Effect of AL
cohol on the Intelligence of the White
Rat" and who Is Feeble Minded ?'
In order to dispose of the lengthy
program within the time limits of the
only 10, 2 or 5 minutes each.
Only half an hour was allowed dele
gates to the convention to complete
their registrations today. Then two
sessions of the gathering were started,
one considering general psychology"
and the other mental tests" The
latter heard the report on the effici-
ency standards of mattresses and other
working women, which was presented
by Jean Weidensan, of GAINESVILLE. Wis.
Helen Thorn pson Woolley and Char
lotte Rust Fischer, of the Cincinnati
bureau of vocational guidance, offered
a joint 15-minute report which show
ed the results of comparative tests,
mental and physical, on IA and 10
year-old workers as compared with
school children of the same age. A
preliminary report was made by J. E.
Wallace Wallin, of the St. Louis psyco-
educational clinic on a census of
speech detectives among 80, 900 public
school pupils. Five other papers were
presented to this one session. fft
This afternoon an exhibit of new
apparatus and teaching materials is to
be opened and is to be followed by a
session devoted to experiment. psy-
chology and another which will round
out the reports on mental tests pre-
scented this morning. The results of
mental tests on college students will
be prominent in the afternoon discus
sions, papers on this subject being pre-
scented by Karl T. Waugh of Beloit
COltSes hdle CTOIuOIl, 1dWT COL
lege; and Elsie Murray of Wilson col
lege. eeble-mindedness will be dis
cussed by Mr.. Wallin of st. Louis and
Samuel G. Kohn of the Chicago house
of correction.
Tomorrow morning will be given up
to a debate of the relation of psychol-
ogy to science, philosophy and peda-
gogy and their comparative values in
courses of study. Discussions and
demonstrations of laboratory equip
ment, apparatus for measuring the eff
fects of emotions and of teaching ma
terial in the afternoon will precede
the annual business meeting of the as
ISOLATION. A banquet will held in the
evening.
The Thursday sessions will consider
animal and educational psychology.
Many of the visitors will remain over
Friday to visit Hull House and the
Juvenile court