A Magazine devoted to Child-Study, especially in those departments that have direct bearing upon the practical problems contained in the education of the child. WILLIAM O. KROHN, PH.D., Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill. ALFRED BAYLISS, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Springfield, Ill. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PUBLICATION. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, One Dollar a year. Single copies, 10 cents. Clubs of five or more, 80 cents a year. Foreign subscriptions, $1.30 per year. Subscribers failing to receive THE MONTHLY by the tenth of the month will confer a favor by sending a postal card to the publisher. DISCONTINUANCE.-When so ordered, THE MONTHLY is discontinued at the expiration of the subscription. Otherwise it is assumed that a continuance is desired, and it will be sent until all CHANGE OF ADDRESS.-When change of address is ordered, both the new and old address HOW TO REMIT.-Remittances should be sent by Draft, Express Order, Money Order or RECEIPTS.-Remittances are acknowledged by change of label on wrapper, indicating date to THE CHILD STUDY DEPARTMENT OF THE CHICAGO SCHOOLS. WE E are pleased to place before our readers an account of the best systematized department of Child-Study in connection with any public schools in the world. This department, as our readers know, was begun a year ago. The plan was organized and formulated by Dr. W. S. Christopher of the Chicago School Board. It is noteworthy that this movement, both as to its practical character and its real efficiency, was recognized and instituted by the Board of Education-laymen, if you please-rather than by the Department of Instruction, made up of educational experts. That this work is of value is further evidenced by the fact that the Chicago board has recently established a laboratory for the study of children at the offices of the board in the Schiller Building. This will be a valuable adjunct in the study of children with arrested development, or whose growth has been abnormal in one or more respects. The citizens of Chicago are again placed under obligations to its board of wide-awake citizens, who have in manifold ways evidenced their devotion to the best interests of the children under their care, and for whose best interests they are responsible. The work has been in charge of Mr. F. W. Smedley, whose article evinces his becoming modesty. In an early issue we will give our readers an account of the laboratory in detail. |