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Bio. 11 – Biology, Easter Examination, 1925-1926 (Dr. M[a]cArthur).

Question Four. Discuss the causes of some of the common mental defects and diseases. Regarding these, what eugenic measures are to be recommended for the improvement of the race?

Question five. Show how Medicine and Surgery, Public Hygiene and Sanitation, Charity, Education, and other applications of worthy humane and social sentiments may not necessarily work towards Eugenic progress, and may often in fact tend to produce race deterioration in man.1(footnote)

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D.S. Methods, Easter Examination, 1921-22.

Question two. Outline the branches of public health work in Canada as given by Dr. MacMurch[y]. Show how many of them are related to Home Economics. Question three. What did you consider the most helpful points in Dr. MacMurchy’s address for (1) the girl who is to go back home? (2) the girl who will make a new home? (3) the girl who will go into hospital work?2(footnote)

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M.C. 1,21,31,41 – Mothercraft, Final Examination, 1934-1935 (Part B examiner Miss M.A. Clarke).

Question One. Who are any two of the following, in what phase of child welfare are they particularly interested and where do they work: - Dr. Frederick Tisdall, Dr. Helen M[a]cMurchy, Judge Mott, Dr. W.E. Blatz.3(footnote)

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Term 3, Cosens. Child Development – Homemakers – cont’d

Lecture 9. Punishment – Aims in Punishing

Lecture 10. Suggested Methods of Punishment. Mental Hygiene in Children. What is meant by the term Mental Hygiene. Importance of prevention of mental illness.

Lecture 14. The family and the child. Aims of family life. Effects of changing conditions on family life. Training for family life before marriage.

Lecture 15. What the parents should provide for the children. Starting before marriage.

Lecture 16. Causes of Delinquency and aims to prevent it, emphasizing particularly better home conditions. Contributions of the community to child welfare.4(footnote)

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Term 2, Cosens. Child Development – all Juniors

Lectures 1-5. The first 5 periods were taken up with reports by the students of various child health and child welfare organizations or Institutions visited during the Christmas Holiday.

Lecture 6. Intellectual processes and early childhood. Special abilities in children and the relationship, if any, of each of these to general intelligence, leadership qualities.

Lecture 7. Perceptual capacities in children. Tests that have been done to determine the ability of children at various ages to perceive pain, […].5(footnote)

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2 lecture periods per week. Lecture periods were taken up with oral reports given by the students about the child health and child welfare institutions that they visited in the Christmas vacation. The work of the Women’s Institutes particularly in Ontario was given to the Homemaker. [Institution names are listed in areas around this explanatory text.] Mothercraft Centre, Mohawk Institute, School for Girls – Galt [training school], University Settlement, Preventorium Day Nursery, School for Blind, Orphanages, School for Deaf, Mental Hospital Orillia.6(footnote)

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Footnotes
  1. Bio. 11 – Biology, Easter Examination, 1925-1926. RE1MACA0004 Box 2, Folder 1925-1926. Courtesy of University of Guelph McLaughlin Library Archives & Special Collections.

  2. D.S. Methods, Easter Examination, 1921-22. RE1MACA0004 Box 2, Folder 1921-22. Courtesy of University of Guelph McLaughlin Library Archives & Special Collections.

  3. M.C. 1,21,31,41 – Mothercraft, Final Examination, 1934-1935 RE1MACA0004 Box 3, Folder 1934-1935. Courtesy of University of Guelph McLaughlin Library Archives & Special Collections.

  4. RE1 MAC A0022, Box 2, Macdonald Institute Course Outlines 1938-1941, Child Development Course Outline, p. 93. Courtesy of University of Guelph McLaughlin Library Archives & Special Collections.

  5. RE1 MAC A0022, Box 2, Macdonald Institute Course Outlines 1938-1941, Child Development Course Outline, p. 171. Courtesy of University of Guelph McLaughlin Library Archives & Special Collections.

  6. RE1 MAC A0022, Box 2, Macdonald Institute Course Outlines, 1938-1941, Mothercraft, Course Outline, 1938-1939, (M. Casens), Jr. Normals, Homemakers, Associates, p.265. Courtesy of University of Guelph McLaughlin Library Archives & Special Collections