Tag: kids
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To Lessen Crime In Children Through Medical Care
The theory posed here by Dr. Schlapp of Cornell Med School is that kids who commit crimes are either normal kids who unfortunately live in abnormal environments, or they are themselves physically or mentally abnormal. In these cases, if we can cure the defect, the child should no longer have criminal tendencies. Easy enough. In […]
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Outbreak Of The “Gang” Terror In New York City
I’m sure this was a real problem for folks back in 1910, but the pictures of young kids gathered around playing games make them seem so harmless compared to gangs of today. Even the gang names, like the Carpenter Gang and the Tanner Smith Terrors, seem so quaint. The details are a little more gruesome. […]
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Personally Directed Sports Are Popular With Children
Around 1900, a group called the Playground Association organized sports for boys in some of the city playgrounds. It was going well until the city took over the playgrounds, and ended the supervised games. The city figured that “play was just play, and if the spaces were there the boys would go, whether an instructor […]
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Schoolboys Learn To Make Air Ships
It had been less than seven years since the Wright brothers flew the first airplane, but already kids gathered in after school clubs learning to build their own working models. The boy inventor is not hindered by patent restrictions of any kind. He is free to copy any model he sees fit, and the cheapness […]
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