Child Welfare, July 6 - 10, 1909
The Conference on Child Welfare was attended by representatives of more than 27 types of child welfare organizations, and contained 15 sessions with 47 addresses. A national child welfare organization of organizations was established with the following officers:
President: G. Stanley Hall
Vice-presidents:
Ben B. Lindsey, C. E. Stiles, Patty S. Hill, Hastings H. Hart
Secretary: Henry S. Curtis
Acting Treasurer: Louis N. Wilson
Preceedings of the Child Conference for Research and Welfare:
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Conference Participants and Papers
As cited in the Proceedings
The ideational types of school children by S. S. Calvin
Reading clubs for older boys and girls by C. M. Hewins
Youth and the marathon by William J. Cromie
Boys clubs by William Byron Forbush
The growth, present extent and prospects of the playground movement in America by Henry S. Curtis
Story telling as a library tool by Alice A. Blanchard
The functioning of the Sunday school (abstract) by Patterson DuBois
What is being done for girls who go wrong by Jessie D. Hodder
How much children attend the theatre, the quality of the entertainment they choose and its effect upon them by Edward H. Chandler
The work of the Juvenile Protective Association by Charles T. Walker
Notes on tuberculosis in school children by F. L. Wachenheim
Practical eugenics by John Franklin Bobbitt
Public responsibility for the health of infants and children by Irving Fisher
The work of the New York Society for the Prevention of Vice, and its bearings on the morals of the young by Anthony Comstock
A characterization of the prevailing defects in backward children and a method of studying and helping them by George E. Dawson
The scientific study of hygiene (abstract) by William H. Burnham
Good and bad air and its effects upon children by William Perry Northrup
The importance of training the growing child in correct postural habits by Joel E. Goldthwait
The welfare of feeble-minded children by E. R. Johnstone
The work of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor in saving child life by Robert W. Bruère
The occupation treatment for sick children by S. E. Tracy
Exploring the new world for children by Samuel McCune Lindsay
The care of the dependent child in the family by Hastings H. Hart
The home at the basis of civic, social and moral uplift by Mrs. Frederick Schoff
Home and school visiting by Katharine Ware Smith
The home in relation to the other factors in education by William H. Burnham
The psychological clinic by Arthur Holmes
Home economics by Mabel P. Huddleston
Children's rooms in household architecture and home playgrounds by Louis N. Wilson
The suburban child by Mrs. Samuel McCune Lindsay
Day nurseries by Mrs. Arthur Dodge
The achievements and future possibilities of the New York Milk Committee (abstract) by Wilbur C. Phillips
The ideals of ethical culture for children by David Muzzey
Criticism of present Sunday-school fads, curriculum and grades, with demonstration of text-books by Edward P. St. John
The development of social consciousness in the Sunday school by Richard Morse Hodge
New departures in Sunday-school pedagogy by Raymond G. Clapp
The National Story Teller's League by Richard Thomas Wyche
Play and story-telling in institutions by Helen Glenn
Story telling—a public library method by Frances Jenkins Olcott
Work with clubs in the Queensborough Public Library by J. F. Hume
The influence of kindergarten methods on the socialization of the school by Colin A. Scott
The place and function of the kindergarten as an institution by Luella Palmer
The younger grades in the Sunday school by Lester Bradner
The educational value of dolls by Laura B. Starr
The physical and social needs of adolescent boys by Winthrop Talbot
Plays by school children (abstract) by George P. Baker
Is it feasible for child helping agencies to maintain research experts? by L. Pearl Boggs