Chapter II: The School Child

Footnote 41:

The Handwriting on the Wall, by J. C. Cooper, p. 222.

Footnote 42:

Education and the Larger Life, by C. Hanford Henderson, p. 85.

Footnote 43:

Poverty, by Robert Hunter, p. 11.

Footnote 44:

Hunter, _op. cit._, p. 216.

See also Mr. Hunter’s article, The Heritage of the Hungry, in the
_Reader Magazine_, September, 1905.

Footnote 45:

Address to the National Educational Association, September 24, 1904,
as reported in the newspapers.

Footnote 46:

See Dr. Warner’s excellent little books, Mental Faculty; The Study of
Children; The Nervous System of the Child, for a discussion of nervous
signs and the whole subject of child health.

Footnote 47:

The tendency of children to give such answers has been frequently
noted and pointed out by foreign investigators. In general, I think it
can safely be said that children are prone to hide their poverty and
to exaggerate in an opposite direction.

Footnote 48:

Report to State Board of Charities. R. Hunter, The Heritage of the
Hungry.

Footnote 49:

The Hunger Problem in the Public Schools—What the Canvass of Six Big
Cities Reveals. Special correspondence in the _Philadelphia North
American_, May 21, 1905.

Footnote 50:

_Idem._

Footnote 51:

_Idem._

Footnote 52:

_Idem._

Footnote 53:

Testimony before the Interdepartmental Committee on Physical
Deterioration, the Royal Commission on Physical Training (Scotland),
Reports of the London School Board on Underfed Children, etc.

Footnote 54:

Quoted by G. Stanley Hall, in Adolescence.

Footnote 55:

_Idem._

Footnote 56:

Final Report (1882–1883) of the Anthropometric Committee appointed by
the British Association in 1875.

Footnote 57:

The figures quoted are taken from an excellent little pamphlet, The
Cost of Child Labor,—A Study of Diseased and Disabled Children,
published by the Child Labor Committee of Pennsylvania.

Footnote 58:

Poverty,—A Town Study, by B. S. Rowntree.

Footnote 59:

In the pamphlet, The Cost of Child Labor, above referred to.

Footnote 60:

Annual Report of the Massachusetts State Board of Health, 1877.

Footnote 61:

Growth of St. Louis School Children, by William T. Porter. Report of
the Academy of Science of St. Louis, vol. vi, pp. 263–380.

Footnote 62:

Special Report of Anthropological Investigation of 1000 white and
colored Children of the New York Juvenile Asylum, by Dr. Hrdlicka.

Footnote 63:

Report of the Royal Commission on Physical Training (Scotland), p. 30.

Footnote 64:

State Maintenance, by J. Hunter Watts, p. 10.

Footnote 65:

Adolescence, by G. Stanley Hall.

Footnote 66:

Feeble-minded Children in the Public Schools, by Will S. Monroe.

Footnote 67:

The Cost of Child Labor, pamphlet quoted above.

Footnote 68:

G. Stanley Hall, _op. cit._, vol. i, p. 401.

Footnote 69:

A Study in Youthful Degeneracy, by George E. Dawson, in the
Pedagogical Seminary, iv, 2.

Footnote 70:

American Journal of Psychology, October, 1898.

Footnote 71:

Dr. Eichholz, Evidence before the Interdepartmental Committee on
Physical Deterioration.

Footnote 72:

Reported in the _New York Times_, May 10, 1905.

Footnote 73:

Overpressure in Elementary Schools, by James Crichton-Browne, M.D.,
LL.D., F.R.S., printed by Order of the House of Commons.

Footnote 74:

See Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, February, 1893.

Footnote 75:

Hansard’s Debates, 1883.

Footnote 76:

Justice, Organ of the Social Democratic Federation, vol. i, No. 35,
September 13, 1884.

Footnote 77:

Letter to the _London Times_, September 26, 1901.

Footnote 78:

Report of the Committee; Evidence, p. 484.

Footnote 79:

_Idem._

Footnote 80:

Beretning om Kristiania folkeskolevæsen,—various yearly reports.

Footnote 81:

School Luncheons in the Special Classes of the Public Schools—A
Suggestive Experiment, by Elizabeth Farrell, in _Charities_, March 11,
1905.

Undernourished School Children, by Lillian Wald, a letter in
_Charities_, March 25, 1905.

Footnote 82:

Hungry Children in New York Public Schools, by E. Stagg Whitin, in the
_Commons_, May, 1905.

Hungry Children are Poor Scholars, an unsigned article in the Official
Journal of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers
of America, May, 1905.

Footnote 83:

See American Charities, by Professor Warner, for a careful statement
of this point.

Footnote 84:

Sixth Biennial Report of the Board of Control and Superintendent of
the Minnesota State Public School for Dependent and Neglected
Children.

Other works consulted include: Mentally Deficient Children: Their
Care and Training, by George E. Shuttleworth; The History of the
Treatment of the Feeble-minded, by Walter E. Fernald; After Bread,
Education, by Hubert Bland, 1905; Official Report of the National
Labor Conference on the State Maintenance of Children, held at the
Guildhall, London, Friday, January 20, 1905, Sir John Gorst, M.P.,
Presiding; Report of Investigations into Social Conditions in
Dundee, Scotland—The Medical Inspection of School Children; Report
to the Municipal Council of Paris on the Annual Expenditures in
Connection with the _Cantines Scolaires_; Various Reports of the
U. S. Commissioner of Education; Reports of the Department of
Education in many American and Foreign Cities.

The Pedagogical Seminary.

Special Reports on Educational Subjects, issued by the Board of
Education (England).