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The Kindergarten Journal, Summer 1910, Elizabeth Harrison, Edna Dean Baker, J.N. Crouse

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

Includes the essay, "The Value of Character", by Elizabeth Harrison (page 28), "Personal Mention" (page 20) and "Alumnae Report" (page 29) by Edna Dean Baker, and "Extension" (page 25) by J.N. Crouse, co-principal of the Chicago Kindergarten College.

Journal editors: Mrs. Todd Lunsford and Mrs. Florence Capron

The Kindergarten Journal, Vol.1 No.3, Elizabeth Harrison, J.N. Crouse

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

Autumn 1910 issue of the quarterly journal. Includes Elizabeth Harrison's report on the 14th annual meeting of the National Congress of Mothers (page 95), an editorial by Elizabeth Harrison titled "The Kindergarten" (page 105) and an editorial titled "The Futurity of College" by Mrs. J.N. Crouse, co-principal of the Chicago Kindergarten College.

Journal editors: Mrs. Todd Lunsford, Mrs. Florence Capron

Misunderstood Children: Sketches Taken From Life, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

Book Contents: Sammie's Prayer, The Boy Who Hated School, Little Mary, The Twins, For Father's Amusement, A Sunday Morning Diversion, A Geography Lesson, The Sand-Pile, A Shop Scene, Jack and the Alley Boys, The Boy and the Scarlet Coat, Katie MacMahon, A Starved Soul, Daughters of Men, Herbert at His Grandmother's, Gertrude's Story, Miss Eleanor's Garden

Some Silent Teachers, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

So kind and sympathetic a reception has been given my " Study of Child-Nature", wherein I treat of the value of understanding and wisely training the INHERETED INSTINCTS of the children, that I have ventured in this book to put forth some suggestions concerning the use of ENVIRONMENT in education. I hope to treat SELF-ACTIVITY and its importance in a third volume, thus completing the trilogy, the outline of which is given in the introduction to this. Thanking a generous public for its past interest, I make no other apology for putting it before the book.

- Elizabeth Harrison

Some Evolutions In Kindergarten Work, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

In this address delivered to the International Kindergarten Union at Pittsburgh, PA, Harrison discusses the expansion of Kindergarten thought and examines some previous evolutions of the field, which include: mother-play books, self-expression through play (particularly by way of rhythmic use of the body as a means of obtaining self-control), Froebel Gifts, and Occupations. Includes sequences for selected Gifts.

Originally published in Kindergarten Review, November 1903

The Scope And Results Of Mothers' Classes, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

In this outline, Harrison discusses motherhood in relation to Mother's classes. She describes the scope and aim of the classes to be the rationalization of the "unconscious nurturing element".

Reprinted from the proceedings of the National Education Association, 1903.

The Kindergarten Building Gifts, Elizabeth Harrison, Belle Woodson

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

From the introduction of The Kindergarten Building Gifts:

To refuse to pass judgment upon a subject not yet understood is one of the surest evidences of the cultured mind. It is, therefore, with a feeling of confidence that the kindergartners ask the rest of the educational world to first understand Froebel's aim in creating the kindergarten Play-Gifts and see whether or not they fulfill the purpose in which they were made.

No one can easily comprehend Froebel without understanding his idea of the meaning of life. Over and over again he has stated that the chief end of education …

03-03-1900, Harriet Sweetser

Life as a Student (1890-1900)

This collection contains letters written by Harriet Sweetser, dated from 1898 to 1916, as well as some photographs. Most of the letters were written during her time as a student at Gorham Normal School, a teacher training college located on what is currently the Gorham campus of the University of Southern Maine. Almost all of the letters are addressed to her mother, with a few to her father. Sweetser writes home to tell her parents about her day-to-day life at school. She later taught at a grammar school in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine and became a superintendent. Harriet Sweetser was born on …

Shop Windows: An Address Delivered Before Mother's Department Of The Chicago Kindergarten College, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

" So our shop windows may be to us merely spots where merchants exhibit their merchandise, which they hope we will purchase, or they may be great illumed volumes of filled with illustrations of the processes of the industrial world and the world of art. In them are to be found whole chapters on anthropology, evolution, sociology, morals, ethics and poetry, illustrated true to life. Which shall they be to you and your children?"

-Elizabeth Harrison, pg. 5

11-08-1899, Harriet Sweetser

Life as a Student (1890-1900)

This collection contains letters written by Harriet Sweetser, dated from 1898 to 1916, as well as some photographs. Most of the letters were written during her time as a student at Gorham Normal School, a teacher training college located on what is currently the Gorham campus of the University of Southern Maine. Almost all of the letters are addressed to her mother, with a few to her father. Sweetser writes home to tell her parents about her day-to-day life at school. She later taught at a grammar school in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine and became a superintendent. Harriet Sweetser was born on …