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A Brief Survey of Child Study-G. W. A. Luckey, Professor of Pedagogy,
University of Nebraska......

Child Study in the Home-M. V. O'Shea
Child Study in the Kindergarten-Sara E. Wiltse..

Child Study from the Standpoint o. the Superintendent-H. E. Kratz.
Child Study in the New Jersey State Normal School-Lillie A. Williams
Child Study from the Standpoint of College and University-Earl Barnes
The Function of State Societies-C. C. Van Liew
Generalizations and Directions-G. Stanley Hall

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Common Defects of Children-H. K. Wolfe.
Children's Choice of Pictures-W. R. Hart, Lincoln, Neb., ex-Supt.
Holdrege, special student Dept. Philosophy, University of N
Pictures in the Primary Grades-Mrs. Mary R. Hart, Primary 1
Lincoln, Neb....
Methods Pursued in Child Study-G. W. A. Luckey.........................
Simple Observations and Experiments-H. K. Wolfe..

Children's Idea About Santa Claus-Frances E. Duncombe, Lincol
special student Dept. of Philosophy, University of Nebraska
The State Societies for Child Study-H. K. Wolfe...........
Plans for Work in Nebraska-G. W. A. Luckey
The Best Works on Child Study-G. W. A. Luckey...

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THE editors of this special number of the JOURNAL feel that some reason should be given for their presumption in undertaking a task so far apart from their usual duties. The motive is readily discovered in the local events of recent years, and especially of the past few months.

The intense interest in the subject of child study manifested at the last two meetings of our State Teachers' Association, in connection with the practical trend of the subject in other states, indicates a readiness on the part of the teachers of Nebraska to begin this work in earnest. It is well understood that there has been no undue forcing of the issue. The movement has grown slowly, but constantly, for the past five years. Those most interested have hoped for permanent things, and have been unwilling to risk ultimate success for the sake of temporary effervescence. Efforts were made to clinch all nails which opportunity drove, but there was no time or vitality wasted in searching for places to stick tacks, or even to start nails, which might easily be bent or would perhaps lacerate the passer-by.

The final decision to issue an enlarged special edition of the JOURNAL, entirely devoted to child study, was not made until the State Reading Circle adopted this subject as a part of the work for the ensuing year.

It seemed to many of the school people of Nebraska that the opportunity to emphasize this phase of the Reading Circle work ought not to be lost. Those oldest in the faith recognized the opportunity for furthering the cause, and two of the patriarchs here offer themselves as living sacrifices to be burned.

The purpose of this number is, therefore, to stimulate further interest among the teachers of Nebraska, and in particular to aid the members of the State Reading Circle to come into more perfect harmony with the greatest educational movement the world has ever experienced. This number may well be consid

ared as properetory and supplementary to the

numbers of the JOURNAL. It is hoped that eno formation appears in the following pages to the scientific origin of the study of children, an its secure foundation; also to show that the mo is already of national importance and that other states are doing more now than we shall to do next year.

The names alone of the contributors from states will give confidence to many a new while the contributions of these leaders in ed will stimulate us all to our best efforts in the the coming months. It has been the services such missionaries as these that brought publi tion to a focus on the child, and it requires not self-sacrifice to continue to hold the sun-glas steady hand while the educational world is so per

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Several of the longer articles are special stu have had experience in the school room. students of the University of Nebraska, all of ticles represent much more work than the spac pied would indicate. The writers agree tha tabulated results and positive conclusions are The personal experiences, even when a th small part of the value of the several investig teacher approaches a school with a definite p are not to be measured in figures or in words.

These original investigations are not inten models. They may, however, show that patien on a single phase of child nature is certain to some definite results.

Attention is called to the Nebraska Society fo Study as a means of bringing into closer relat all parents and teachers who are working in th The article on best books will be helpful espec those in charge of local circles. Several of the articles are suggestive of ways to begin persona with children. It is believed that 5,000 Ne

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