lie Poulson.
Fifty Children's Songs, Reinecke.
Songs of the Child World (2 vols., each $1.00; postage 12c),
Gaynor.
Songs for the Children (2 vols., each $1.25; postage 14c),
Eleanor Smith.
30 Selected Studies (Instrumental), ($1.50, postage 14c),
Heller.
Pictures for Children
Detaille Prints, Boutet de Monvil, Joan of Arc.
Caldecott: Picture Books (4 vols., each $1.25; postage 12c).
Walter Crane: Picture Books ($1.25, postage 10c).
Colored illustrations cut from magazines, notably those drawn
by Howard Pyle, Elizabeth Shippen Greene, and Jessie Wilcox
Smith.
See articles in "Craftsman" for December, 1904, February and
April, 1905, "Decorations for School Room and Nursery."
_Note_.--Books in the above list may be purchased through the
American School of Home Economics at the prices given. Members
of the School will receive students' discount.
Program for Supplemental Work
on the
STUDY OF CHILD LIFE
By Marion Foster Washburne.
MEETING I
Infancy. (Study pages 3-25)
(a) Its Meaning. See Fiske on "The Part Played by Infancy in the
Evolution of Man" in "A Century of Science" (16c).
(b) General Laws of Progression. See Millicent Shinn's "Biography of
a Baby" (12c), and W. Preyer's "The Mind of the Child" (20c). Give
resumes of these two books.
(c) Practical Conclusions. Hold Experience Meeting to conclude
afternoon.
MEETING II
Faults and Their Remedies. (Study pages 26-57)
(a) General Principles of Moral Training. Read Herbert Spencer on
"Education" (12c), chapter on "Punishment"; also call for quotations
from H.H. Jackson's "Bits of Talk About Home Matters" (10c).
(b) Corporal Punishment. Why It Is Wrong.
(c) Positive Versus Negative Moral Training. Read extracts from
Froebel's "Education of Man" (12c), and Richter's "Levana" (12c), Kate
Douglas Wiggin's "Children's Rights" (10c), and Elizabeth Harrison's
"Study of Child Nature" (10c), are easier and pleasanter reading,
sound, but less fundamental. Choice may be made between these two sets
of books, according to conditions.
(Select answer to test questions on Part I and send them to the
School.)
MEETING III
Character Building. (Study pages 59-75)
Read extracts from Froebel, Pestalozzi, and Harriet Martineau.
(a) From Froebel to show general principles (12c).
(b) From Pestalozzi (14c) or if th
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