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Geographic Studies Of Population And Settlements In Worcester County, Massachusetts, Willem Van Royen

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The Rise Of The Banana Industry And Its Influence On Caribbean Countries, John L. Williams

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The phenomenal growth of the banana industry is one of the most outstanding features of commerce during the last half century. Like the banana tree itself, this industry has grown to stupendous size in a relatively short span of time. Why has this business continued to grow and why at the present time is it still expanding? The answer is that the banana has become internationally recognized as a very nourishing food and as populations increase, so must he banana trade increase in order to supply the demand. In order to thoroughly understand the banana industry one must first acquaint …

The Geography Of The Cranberry Industry In Southeastern Massachusetts, Carol Young Mason

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The purpose of this paper is to set forth the essential conditions for cranberry growing, to point out the distribution of cranberry bogs in southeastern Massachusetts, to show the adjustment of the industry to natural conditions, to trace the development of the industry in relation to its physical and economic environment, and to predict the future of the industry.

Psychoanalysis Of Freud And Adler, Francis Cecil Sumner

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Francis Cecil Sumner was the first Black man to receive a PhD in psychology. His mentor, G. Stanley Hall, personally chaired this dissertation. Sumner became known as the "Father of Black Psychology". He went on to teach at Wilberforce University and West Virginia State College, and then chaired the psychology department at Howard University from 1930 to 1954.

A History Of The Treatment Of Insanity In Massachusetts, Robert U. Cooper

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In this thesis, an attempt has been made to sketch the progress in the treatment of mental disorders, from the earliest records to the present time. The introductory account of the conditions before the seventeenth century briefly considers the methods employed in Europe and Northern Africa prior to that date, while the main narrative is confined principally to the advancement achieved in Massachusetts since the Colonial days. For the sake of convenience and clarity, the legislative progress, the development of institutions and the improvement in methods of treatment, have been separated, as far as expedient, in the presentation of the …

Organic Inferiority And Its Psychic Compensation In Relation To Physical Education, Earl F. Zinn

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While character has long been a matter of man's prime concern, it is only in recent years that psychology has been in a position to effectively attack the problem. For the first time in its history is this science equipped with both a point of view and a method which give every promise of ultimately solving this most vital and perplexing of human problems. One of the distinctive features of this viewpoint pertains to the somatic relationship. From this, organic integrity and physical health are seen in a new light. This is of decided significance for physical education.

The increased …

A Study Of The Qualitative Changes Of Population, Chi Li

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Historically the study of population shows three successive stages: the economical, the biological and the eugenic . Thomas Robert Malthus represents the first, Herbert Spencer, the second, and Sir Francis Galton , the third. In the light of modern sociology, an inquiry into the problem of population is, therefore, a three-fold process; it is concerned with the qualitative changes of population as well as the quantitative changes and the relation between the quantitative changes and the production of food . It is the first aspect that we propose to examine in this thesis. We shall see how individuals differ from …

New Currents Of Thought Among The Colored People Of America, E. Franklin Frazier

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Some Aspects Of Individual Psychology, Curtis T. Williams

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This study is concerned primarily with tracing differences, somatological and mental, which mark off one individual from another. The term "differential psychology" may be applied in the sense of William Stern. This newer field of individual psychology, although relying on the parent stem for much of its stimulus and data, is receiving increasing attention ans has reached the stage where it may be called a separate discipline.

The Psycho-Clinician : Personality And Training, Florence Mateer

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The Psychology Of Senescence: An Introductory Study, Charles W. St. John

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The following biographical studies have been made with the purpose of showing through concrete cases some aspects of mental decline in senescence. To the objection that each of these cases follows a course in a degree divergent from that of normal mental decline, the reply is that a study of these striking instanced, we believe, afford a more ready insight into the underlying phenomena than would a similar one which deals with average or typical cases. The significance of exceptional cases should not be underestimated. Certain peculiar conditions have been present which have modified the typical phenomena, but after due …

Forms And Powers Of Massachusetts States Boards And Commissions, George Gordon Sampson

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Legislatures early adopted the committee system referring bills to them for investigation. The growth in the volume and diversity of laws, together with the shortness of terms and dominance of the theory of rotation in office, rendered expert knowledge on the part of the committee rare. As a result, special committees of the legislature for investigation became common. With the increased pressure of work, it was but a step to the appointment of committees outside of the legislature who were expert in the subject. This practice has continued to this day. Massachusetts was the pioneer in the United States in …

Worcester Survey: Children's Charities, John Leroy Hughes

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This report does not cover all of the child-helping organizations in the city but those not mentioned here are described in the other departments of the survey. A correct understanding of the psychological ideals of each institution, especially those under Catholic management, is necessary in order to get a fair appreciation of the work being done.

Juvenile Deliquency In Worcester, Massachusetts, Thomas Charles Carrigan

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A study of "Juvenile Delinquency in Worcester" was made by Albert H.N. Baron of Clark University in May 1906. Worcester was then a city of about 130,000 inhabitants and Baron's study covered the period from 1901 to May 1906. The period chosen in the present study is from May 1907 to April 1910 and Worcester at this writing has a population of about 146,000. The present study is intended to supplement Baron's to April 1, 1910, except for the interval between May 1906 and June 1907. During these thirteen months the present juvenile law (Chapter 413 of the acts of …

A Swedish Population Of Worcester: A Study In Social Survey, Karl J. Karlson

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This paper is not going to be an historical sketch of the growth and development of the population, but instead a description of the status quo of an industrial, peace-loving, and law-abiding Swedish settlement. The material for this thesis has been gathered from statistics of churches and societies, in personal interviews with prominent men who has been closely associated with the Swedish people for a great many years, and from personal observation and investigation. It is needless to say, I think, that I shall present the facts as I have found them and be as impartial as anybody possibly can.

Heterogeneity Of Population As Correlated With Diversity Of Industries In Worcester And Other Massachusetts Cities, Walter Seward Foley

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In this thesis the question of the character of the population of a city in its relation to the city's industrial activity will be studied. In a city where there is a prevailing industry, will the population tend to be racially heterogeneous, industrially heterogeneous, both, or neither? Three Massachusetts cities, Brockton, Fall River, and Worcester, have been selected for study.

Juvenile Deliquency In Worcester, Mass., Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron

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The city of Worcester, Massachusetts is in the list of middle-sized cities. It now (in 1906) has a population of over 130,000 and may be taken as a representative manufacturing city. As a concrete local study, the present investigation of juvenile delinquency in Worcester has been undertaken with this three-fold object in view -- to ascertain -- 1st, the extent and character of juvenile offenses; 2nd, the present mode of dealing with them; and 3rd, the changes or improvements that might be suggested by a comparison with the methods in vogue elsewhere. The data here presented have been obtained from …