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Show 1 WILL STUDY CHILDREN I I-- Dr. O. Stanley Hall, prosldont of Clark unlvor "v Bty Worcoster, Mass., has decided to crystallzo f Vy tno ontro child wolfaro movement by lnnugurat m Aik ,nB u uow lJoPnrt"'0t for tho study of tho child I . iHWm in UIh institution this fall. Dr. Hall, who Is now I -s fwMljB In his sixty-fourth year, Ib considered by many to I fjy fflVvW bo tho greatest American authority on tho subjoct K www8t ot luo clllld ln nl1 Illa romt,on8 t0 tll r08t of mnn - J iAlVu5' 1'ml In n,s DOoVt "Adolosconco," ho explains tho WAMilMilr often amazing conduct of bad, bad boys and girls 'Wmm l,y -ocmrnK 'n,lv tno cu,,tl ,n tovr yearn bo tjfl'ty) jf WWRM foro reaching manhood passes through tho eutlro Wsl 'Mr?5rK struggle of tho human race from tho dawn of hls- y WJXmP'iwA tory In tho opltomo. Tho child has Us stono, flint JJmfJhf R't bronxo agos, etc., Dr. Hall says, and all of its tPlflffflmA cruelties and vagaries can only bo explained by this hypothesis. Dr, Hall dislikes tho Idea of whipping children. Ho declaros that if the parent understood tho child as ho should ho could bettor dlroct Its energies In another direction. Dr. Hall's now dopnrtmont will bo a sort of clearing house for sclentlflo Information about chtldron, and It Is tho first ono of Its kind In tho country. Tho department will Inoludo tho study of child anthropology, child loro, cuBtom, belief, gangs, etc , and hyglcue, backward children, and tho fascinating fascinat-ing probloms of Juvenile vlco nnd crlmo. |