During the liulf year ending January 31, 1911, there have been two groups of boys in a special class in Girard College, one group known as the "Retarded Class," the other as the "Delinquent Class." There were twenty-four boys in the Retarded Class and twenty-eight in the Delinquent Class. Retarded boys are those who have remained unduly long in a grade without promotion, the repeating having be...

In this book Miss Jephcott, author of Girls Growing Up, gives us a picture of 100 ordinary working-class girls in three very different parts of England. The one thing they have in common is that at the time of the study they were all over 17 and under 21. From the girls themselves the author has learned about the interests and thoughts of adolescents between the ages of 14 and 20, and the resul...