Eugenical News, Volumul 1

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American Eugenics Society., 1916

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Pagina 10 - Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris...
Pagina 54 - ... healthy as average children; their ability is far more often general than special, they are studious above the average, really serious moral faults are not common among them, they are nearly always socially adaptable, are sought after as playmates and companions, their play life is usually normal, they are leaders far oftener than other children, and notwithstanding their many really superior qualities they are seldom vain or spoiled.
Pagina 62 - Epilepsy is not a morbid entity existing by itself but a manifestation of manifold derangements disturbing the nervous system...
Pagina 31 - ... in the absence of a statute, courts could not annul marriages for fraud in concealing disease except when the disease was of such a nature as to render contact seriously dangerous to the other party to the marriage.
Pagina 14 - ... eager for information regarding this type of child; and the school is rapidly becoming aware that it has neglected this problem. Rapid advancement classes are held for these children in certain cities, in others extra work is given them in the regular classes. But as yet few cities have had the courage to develop a program exactly fitted to their needs, nor have the psychological clinics said much regarding tests to discover the supernormal...
Pagina 52 - Women announces the offer of a third prize of 200!. for the best thesis written by a woman, on a scientific subject, embodying new observations and new conclusions based on an independent laboratory research in biological, chemical, or physical science.
Pagina 77 - I owe to Mother my temperament, my love of nature, my brooding, introspective habit of mind — all those things which in a literary man help to give atmosphere to his work. In her line were dreamers and fishermen and hunters. One of her uncles lived alone in a little house in the woods.
Pagina 76 - The results so far obtained with these rats indicate that close inbreeding does not necessarily lead to a loss of size or of constitutional vigor or of fertility, if the animals so mated come from sound stock in the beginning and sufficient care is taken to breed only from the best individuals.
Pagina 6 - There are also the factor C, which makes for normal cheerfulness of mood, and its absence, c, which permits a more or less periodic depression. Moreover, these factors behave as though in different chromosomes, so that they are inherited independently of each other and may occur in any combination.
Pagina 25 - The supreme object of education should be to make the next generation better than living generations." We also offered honorariums to the amount of $250 in each of four sections of the country, totaling $1000 in 12 states, as acknowledgment of special excellence in these studies by graduating classes of 1917.

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