CONTENTS

PART I. THE VIEWPOINT OF VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE

The Value, during Education, of the Life-Career Motive. President

Emeritus Charles W. Eliot. (Address at the National Education Asso-

ciation meeting, 1910).

Vocational Guidance. President Richard C. Maclaurin, Massachusetts In-

stitute of Technology. (Address at the First National Conference on

Vocational Guidance, Boston, 1910)

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13

The Social Waste of Unguided Personal Ability. Erville B. Woods, Dart-

mouth College. (American Journal of Sociology, November, 1913). .

The Wasteful Recruiting of Trades and Occupations. N. B. Dearle.

("Industrial Training," chap. xv, P. S. King & Son, London, 1914)

19

The Larger Educational Bearings of Vocational Guidance. George Herbert

Mead, Professor of Philosophy, The. University of Chicago. (Address

at the Third National Conference on Vocational Guidance, Grand Rapids,

Michigan, 1913) . .

The Industrial Factor in Education. Ernest N. Henderson, Professor of

Psychology and Education, Adelphi College, Brooklyn, New York. (Re-

port of the Committee on the Place of Industries in Public Education to

the National Council of Education, July, 1910)

32

43

56

Problems of Vocational Guidance. Superintendent F. E. Spaulding, Min-

neapolis. (Address at the Department of Superintendence, Cincinnati,

Ohio, 1915). . .

69

The Schools and Vocational Guidance. John V. Brennan, Superintendent of

Schools, Ironwood, Michigan. (American Schoolmaster, September, 1914)

/Vocational Guidance in the Boston Schools. Stratton D. Brooks, President

of the University of Oklahoma. (Address at the First National Confer-

ence on Vocational Guidance, Boston, November, 1910)

Vocational Guidance and Public Education. Paul H. Hanus, Professor of

Education, Harvard University. (The School Review, January, 1911)

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83

92

The University and Vocational Guidance. E. L. Thorndike, Professor of

Educational Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University. (Ad-

dress at the Alumni Conference at Teachers College, 1913)

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Suggestions toward a Tenable Theory of Vocational Guidance. H. D. Kitson,

Associate in Psychology, The University of Chicago. (Manual Training

and Vocational Education, January, 1915)

Necessity of Professional Training for Vocational Counseling. Frederick

G. Bonser, Director Industrial Arts, Teachers College, Columbia Uni-

versity. (Address at the Third National Conference on Vocational

Guidance, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1913).

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103

109

PART II. THE FOUNDATIONS OF VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE

Briefs of Papers on Vocational Guidance. (Read before the Boston Masters'

Association, November, 1912).

117

Vocational Guidance in Cincinnati. Frank P. Goodwin. (Address before

the Ohio State High School Teachers' Association at Columbus, Ohio,

December 29, 1913).

Constant and Variable Occupations and their Bearing on Problems of

Vocational Education. Leonard P. Ayres. (Russell Sage Foundation

publications)

129

141

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Some Conditions affecting Problems of Industrial Education in Seventy-

eight American School Systems. Leonard P. Ayres. (Russell Sage

Foundation publications) .

150

The Vocational Interests, Study Habits, and Amusements of the Pupils in

Certain High Schools in Iowa. Irving King, State University of Iowa.

(The School Review, March, 1914)

172

An Inquiry into Vocational Aims of High-School Pupils. Miss Bessie

D. Davis, of the Somerville High School. (From a tentative report to

the Superintendent of Schools, Somerville, Mass., and to the Vocation

Bureau of Boston)

190

Shall Elective Courses be established in the Seventh and Eighth Grades

of the Elementary School? District Superintendent I. E. Goldwasser,

Manhattan, New York. (Psychological Clinic, January, 1914)

200

Charting Childhood in Cincinnati. Dr. Helen Thompson Woolley, Bureau

of Vocational Guidance, Child Labor Department, Cincinnati Public

Schools. (Survey, August, 1913)

220

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Work, Wages, and Schooling of Eight Hundred. Iowa Boys in Relation

to the Problems of Vocational Guidance. Ervin E. Lewis, Associate

Professor of Education. (Published by the University, Iowa City, Iowa) 234

A Study of the Vocational Guidance of Grammar-School Pupils. Ellen M.

Greany, Hugh O'Brien School, Boston. (Prepared for the Seminary in

Elementary Education in Harvard University and for Tufts College.

Printed in Educational Administration and Supervision, March, 1915). 267

Vocational Guidance. (Report of the Committee on High Schools and Train-

ing Schools, Board of Education, New York City, 1914) . . .

The Occupations of College Graduates as influenced by the Undergraduate

Course. Dean Frederick P. Keppel, Columbia College, New York.

(Educational Review, December, 1910)

Practical Arts and Vocational Guidance. C. A. Prosser, Secretary of the

National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education. (Manual

Training Magazine, February, 1913).

Selecting Young Men for Particular Jobs. Herman Schneider, Dean of the

College of Engineering, University of Cincinnati. (American Machinist,

April, 1913)..

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368

Effect of Noise, Fatigue, and Environment on Worker. Herman Schneider,

Dean of the College of Engineering, University of Cincinnati.

379

The Permanence of Interests and their Relation to Abilities. Edward L.

Thorndike, Teachers College, Columbia University. (Popular Science

Monthly, November, 1912)

Opportunities in School and Industry for Children of the Stockyards

District. Ernest L. Talbert. (Report of an Investigation carried on

under the Direction of the Board of The University of Chicago Settle-

ment, 1912). .

The American Girl in the Stockyards District. Louise Montgomery. (Ex-

tracts from an Investigation carried on under the Direction of the Board

of The University of Chicago Settlement and the Chicago Alumnæ Club

of The University of Chicago, 1913). . .

386

396

454

The School and the Working-Child. Sophonisba P. Breckinridge and Edith

Abbott, Directors, Department of Social Investigation. (Report to the

Chicago Woman's Club, the Chicago Association of Collegiate Alumnæ,

and the Woman's City Club)

485

What we need to know about Occupations. Dr. Charles R. Richards, Direc-

tor, Cooper Union, New York. (Address at the Second National

Conference on Vocational Guidance, New York, 1913)

504

PART III. EXAMPLES OF VOCATIONAL INFORMATION

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The Architect. ("Vocations for Boys," publication of the Vocation Bureau

of Boston)

515

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The Grocer. ("Vocations for Boys," publication of the Vocation Bureau

of Boston)

523

The Machinist. ("Vocations for Boys," publication of the Vocation Bureau

of Boston)

534

Occupations and Industries open to Children between Fourteen and Sixteen

Years of Age. Anne Davis. (Board of Education, Chicago, 1914) . . 542

Telephone Operating. (Issued by the Girls' Trade Education League,

Boston, Massachusetts)

557

Survey of Occupations open to the Girl of Fourteen to Sixteen Years.

Harriet Hazen Dodge. (Publications of the Girls' Trade Education

League, Boston, Massachusetts)

571

Juvenile Employment in the Building Trades. Ernest Aves. (Report of an

Inquiry into the Conditions of Juvenile Employment in London) . . 602

Conditions of Juvenile Employment in the Ready-Made Women's Clothing

Trades in London, in the Spring of 1911. Miss Collet, Senior Investi-

gator for Women's Industries

Conditions of Juvenile Employment in the Bookbinding and Stationery

Trades (Girls) in London, October, 1911 — March, 1912. Miss Collet,

Senior Investigator for Women's Industries

PART IV. SOME PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF VOCATIONAL

GUIDANCE

Vocational Guidance and Employment in Birmingham. Meyer Bloomfield

("The School and the Start in Life," United States Bureau of Education

Bulletin, 1914)

647

666

679

Medical Inspection at the Start in Life. Meyer Bloomfield. ("The School

and the Start in Life," United States Bureau of Education Bulletin, 1914) 704

School and Employment. Meyer Bloomfield. ("The School and the Start

in Life," United States Bureau of Education Bulletin, 1914) ..

711

INDEX.

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A

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

OF ALL

TRADES,

DIGESTED IN

ALPHABETICAL ORDER:

BY WHICH

PARENTS, GUARDIANS, and TRUSTEES,
may, with greater Eafe and Certainty, make choice
of TRADES agreeable to the Capacity, Education,
Inclination, Strength, and Fortune of the YOUTH
under their Care.

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