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COLLECTION NAME: Reymert Papers

LOCATION: M 1227

 

Folder   Your Child's World, I.

 

Monthly publication entitled YOUR CHILD'S WORLD published by The BOOK HOUSE for CHILDREN. Martin L. Reymert, Director of the Mooseheart Laboratory for Child Research , wrote a column for each issue.

 

This folder contains Volume 11, 1941, Numbers 4‑12; and Volume 111, 1942, Numbers 1‑12.

 

Folder   Your Child's World, II.

 

Volume 4, 1943. Numbers 3‑12.

 

Volume 5, 1944. Numbers 1‑12.

 

Volume 6, 1945.‑ Numbers 1, 3‑12.

 

Folder   Your Child's World, III.

 

Volume 7, 1946. Numbers 1‑12.

 

Volume 8, 1947. Numbers 1‑12.

 

Folder   Your Child.'s World, IV.

 

Volume 9, 1948. Numbers 1‑12.

 

Volume 10, 1949. Numbers 1‑12.

 

Folder   Your Child's World, V.

 

Volume 11, 1950. Numbers 1‑12.

 

Volume XII, 1951. Numbers 1‑12.

 

Volume 13, 1952. Numbers 1‑12.

 

Volume 14, 1953.Numbers 1‑6.

 

 


 

Folder   G. Stanley Hall

 

Correspondence of 1917‑24 between Martin Reymert and G. Stanley Hall. Among the items of the correspondence:

 

Letter of 7‑14‑17 from G. Stanley Hall . Addressed to "To Whom it May Concern" and serving as a letter of recommendation for Reymert and verification of the fact that Reymert had completed the work for his Ph.D under Hall at Clark University.

 

3 letters of October, 1917 ‑ January, 1918 to Reymert from Hall re. Reymert's return to Norway; plans for the American publication of Reymert's thesis in the Pedagogical Seminary; discussion of Reymert's marriage.

 

Copy of a letter of 11‑18‑19 from Hall to the Department of Foreign Affairs, Norway recommending Reymert for an appointment as Press Agent for Norway in the USA.

 

Letters of 1919‑21 from Hall to Reymert. Personal news; discussion of biographical infW10mation re. Hall for a series on American psychologists which Reymert wanted to do in Norway; mention of plans for Hall's resignation from Clark University; the possibility of Reymert being offered the Chair of Psychology and Pedagogy at the University of Kristiania.

 

Letter of 1‑10‑21 to Reymert from E.G.Boring re. Reymert's kind interest in a graduate student named "Ekdahl"; Boring's feeling that Reymert will not be granted

membership in APA because of his foreign residence; report on the "new order of things" at Clark since Hall's resignation from the presidency.

 

Lengthy correspondence of 1922‑24 between Hall and Reymert generally concerning the pros and cons of Reymert taking a teaching position at Wittenberg College in Ohio. Among the other topics of the corr.:

 

Hall requests information re. the student movements in Germany and throughout Europe.

 

Hall's willingness to promote the circulation of an English version of a new journal entitled the Scandinavian Scientific Review.

 

Reference to Hall's recent book, Senescence and Reymert's intentions of writing a review of it.

 

Hall expresses willingness to write an Introduction to Reymert's revised thesis.

 

Mention of the fact that Hall had been nominated for a Nobel prize. Letter of 3‑28‑24 to Reymert from Hall's secretary reports that Hall has been ill and unable to keep up with correspondence.

 


8 pages, a Festschrift entitled G. Stanley Hall. By Reymert. In a foreign language, Norwegian: Date?

 

Undated, unidentified newspaper clipping re. the death of G. Stanley Hall.

Includes a photo.

 

One individual portrait of Hall,

 

3 photos. 1 is evidently Wilhelm Wundt; 1 is perhaps John Burnham; 1 is unidentified.

 

2 wooden blocks with imprints. One with the signature of G. Stanley Hall; the other with a portrait of Hall.

 

 


 

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COLLECTION NAME: Raymert Papers

LOCATION: M 1228

 

Folder   First Symposium on Feelings and Emotions

 

Packet of small photographs of the Wittenberg College Campus, 1928.

 

Brief letter of 10‑8‑27 to Dr. Tulloss, President of Wittenberg College from Reymert re. the travel plans of Prof. Brett.and Dr. Seashore.

 

3 pages of biographical information on the foreign contributors to the Wittenberg Symposium. Rough draft.

 

Copies of Western Union telegrams to Reymert congratulating him on the f6unding of the new lab at Wittenberg. One from Carl Joergensen, the other from Erica Erkhart. Dated Oct. 21, and 20, 1927.

 

Copy of a telegram to Mrs. E.B. Titchener from the members of the symposium expressing sympathy on the recent death of her husband, 10‑20‑27; telegram from Mrs. Titchener, 10‑21‑27, thanking the members of the symposium for their remembrance and sympathy.

 

Floor plan for the new psychological laboratory at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio.

 

1 pages of instructions from Reymert for students of Psychology courses during the first semester, 1926‑27 during Reymert's absence.

 

Letter of 1‑27‑45 to Reyemtt from Donald B. Lindsley in which the latter states that he hopes Reymert is presented with an honorary degree from Wittenberg during the Centennial celebration.

 

Status reports of August 3 and Aug. 13, 1927 re. plans for the Wittenberg Symposium on Feelings and Emotions. List of the American psychologists expected to participate in the symposium and their topics. The report of August 3 is in vey poor physical condition.

 

Lists of addresses of American and European Contributows to the Wittenberg Symposium

 

7 pages of carbon copies of information re. plans for the symposium which were evidently circulated among several committee members.

 

Invitation to a dinner on Oct. 21, 1927 on the occasion of the dedication of the Chemistry‑Psychology Building at Wittenberg College. Joseph Jastrow is listed as one of the dinner speakers.

 

An invitation to members of the staff of the Dept. of Psychology to attend the Symposium on Feelings and Emotions, Wittenberg College.

 

Program for the Dedication Ceremonies of the Chemistry‑Psychology Building,

Wittenberg College, 10‑21‑27.

 

Numerous lists of universities, colleges and other educational institutions and their delegates to the Symposium.

 


Complete program for The Wittenberg Symposium on Feelings and Emotions; the Conference on Chemistry; and the Dedication of the Chemistry‑Psychology Building. Held during the week of Oct. 19‑22, 1927 at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio. Taken from The Wittenberg Bulletin, 10‑17‑27.

 

2‑page‑long list entitled NO REGISTRATION CARD FOR FOLLOWING PSYCHOLOGISTS.

 

Pages 587 and 588 from The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XXIV, No. 21, Oct. 13, 1927 . These 2 pages report on the Wittenberg Symposium.

 

Pages 171‑172 from The American Journal of Psychology, date?. From the Notes and Discussion section. Describes the new psych. lab. at Wittenberg College.

 

Folder   Photos of the Wittenberg Symposium

 

Group photo of Knight Dunlap, George E. Brett, Madison Bentley, E.B. Hoisington, D.T. Howard, M. Reymert. Oct., 1928.

 

Group photo. Among the participants photographed: J. Jastrow, K. Buhler, Reymert, J. McK. Cattell, Margaret Washburn,.Carbon copy of I page identifying the persons in the above‑mentioned photo.

 

Group photo of Reymert, Dr. Heisy(?), and J. McK. Cattell.

 

Group photo of Dr. Tulloss, President of Wittenberg College; Margaret Washburn, and Reymert.

 

2 photos of the newly dedicated (1928) Psychology and Chemistry Building at Wittenberg College.

 

Folder   2nd Symposium on Feelings and Emotions.

 

Correspondence of 1948 among Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, Chancellor of the University of Chicago (host for the 2nd symposium); Malcolm R. Giles, Executive Director of the order of the Moose; and James G. Miller, M.D., Head of the Dept. of Psych, U. of Chicago. The items of the corr. are dated during Dec., 1948‑ after the symposium of Oct.28‑30, 1948. Generally re. the success of the symposium and intentions for publishing the proceedings.

 

Copy of a letter of 6‑26‑63 to Mrs. D.D. Reymert from John W. Taylor of McGraw‑Hill Book Co., Inc. re. the fact that the volume entitled' FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS, THE MOOSEHEART SYMPOSIUM had been in print since 1948, there was no longer enough demand for the volume to justify a third printing.

 

3 pages, carbon copy. By Reymert. Prospectus for THE MOOSEHEART (or the Moose) WORLD SYMPOSIUM ON FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS. Generally a description of the operations of the first symposium and an estimate of the labor and expense to be anticipated if a second symposium is planned.

 

5 pages, carbon copy. Comments of the participants of the 2nd symposium, evidently taken from letters sent to Reymert after the symposium. The following psychologists were among those commenting on the value of the symposium:

 

Magda B. Arnold                        Walter Bingham                                     Samuel J. Beck

 

Trigant Burrow                           Dorwin Cartwright                                   Chester W. Darrow

 

Franklin Fearing                         Harold E. Jones                                     Herbert S. Langfeld

 

H.S Liddell                                Robert Malmo                                        Saul Rosenzweig

 

Nathan Shock                            John E. Anderson                                  Lovisa Wagoner

 

S.L. Pressey                             Carl Seashore

 

 

Announcement of the publication of the Second International Symposium on FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS, The Mooseheart Symposium with cooperation of the University of Chicago. Edited by Reymert. Description of the contents. Publisher: McGraw‑Hill.

 

2 pages by Reymert as General Chairman of the Second Symposium‑­perhaps his Preface to the published version of the proceedings.

 

2 pages, rough draft. By Reymert. “Why did I start the first symposium?”

 

Page 13 from the Moose Magazine reporting on the 2nd Symposium and in­cluding photos of some of the participants including Reymert and Magda B. Arnold.

 

Invitation to the Symposium of October, 1948.

 

Brief Abstract of Donald B. Lindsley's contribution to the 2nd Symposium: EMOTIONS AND THE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM.

 

3 pages listing the participants in the 2nd Symposium and their titles and institutions.

 

60 pages, carbon copy, of the PROCEEDINGS OF The Second International Symposium on Feelings and Emotions. Oct. 28‑30, 1948, Mooseheart and Chicago, Illinois. From the Bona Fide Reporting Co., Chicago.

 


 

Folder   Feelings and Emotions‑ A Twenty‑Year Perspective

 

Brief abstracts of the papers of all the participants in the Moos,eheart Symposium of 1948. The following American psychologists were included:

 

Herbert S. Langfeld                    George Lawton                          Carl Rogers

H.S. Liddell                               Nathan Shock                            Rensis Likert

Saul Rosenzweig                       Donald B. Lindsley                     David Shakow

Robert B. Malmo                        Marion Wenger                          James G. Miller

Gardner Murphy                         Curt Richter                               John E.Anderson

Magda B. Arnold                        S.J. Beck                                  Walter V. Bingham

Trigant Burrow                           Dorwin Cartwright                       Chester Darrow             

Franklin Fearing                         Arnold Gesell                             Ernest Harms

Harold.E. Jones.

 

 

Folder   Papers by Reymert

 

13 pages, carbon copy. Dated 1926. Title: SOME REMARKS ON THE QUALI­TATIVE ASPECTS OF MENTAL MEASUREMENTS. Read before the Section of Psych., American Assn. for the Advancement of Science, at the Kansas City meeting, Jan.1, 1926.

 

7 typewritten pages entitled AN EXPERIMENTAL ATTACK ON THE PROBLEM OF THE SOCIALIZATION OF EXPERIENCE. Dated 1927.

 

8 pages of graphs. Data on Boys and Girls aged 3‑16 years: Action or Kinaesthesis; Closure.

 

I typewritten page: Abstract of paper: An experimental Attack on the Problem of the Socialization of Experience.

 

2 pages, carbon copy. Dated 1929. Title: APPARENT VISUAL MOVEMENT AS INFERENCE PHENOMENON,

 

2 pages, carbon copy. Title: Qualitative and Quantitative Exploration of a Well Known Mental Test (The Knox Cube Test)

 

17 pages entitled OUR BEWILDERED OFFSPRING‑ THE ADOLESCENT. Delivered before the High School Parent‑Teacher Assn. of Minneapolis, Minn. 4‑2‑41.

 

3 annotated pages entitled What Psychology is Not.

 

3 pages, carbon copy. THOUGHT FOR PARENTS AT YULETIDE. Dated the 40's.

 

5 handwritten pages listing Articles by Reymert.

 


 

Folder   Guides for Child Care Classes

 

Guides and Manuals of the 19409's by the Mooseheart Laboratory for Child Research for use of the Women of the Moose in conducting Child Care and Training Classes.

 

Folder   Third Symposium on Feelings and Emotions.

 

Announcements, Invitations, Programs, and Information sheets re. the Third International Symposium on Feelings and Emotions.

 

Held at Loyola University, Oct., 1968.

 

Correspondence of 1968 among Mrs. M,L, Ryemert, Magda B. Arnold and Father J,H, Mead of Loyola University re. plans for the 3rd Symposium.

 

13 pages by Richard S. Peters entitled The Education of the Emotions.

 

14 ‑pages by S. Strasser entitled Feeling as basis of knowing and recog­nizing the other as an egg.

 

Folder   Miscellaneous Photos.

 

Several photos of Martin L. Ryemert, Individual and group.

 

Photos of Mrs. Reymert.

 

Group photos of Mooseheart Laboratory staff members, advisory council members and others associated with Mooseheart during the 30's and 40's.

 

Photo of Cecelia Aldrich. ( group)

 

Individual photo of Joseph Jastrow. Attached to a small booklet and an information folder re. A Course of Twelve Lectures on The Psychology of the Emotions by Jastrow.

 

Folder   Alfred Adler Correspondence.

 

Correspondence of 1927‑28 between Reymert and Alfred Adler. Among the topics of the Correspondence:

 

Adler's willingness to contribute a manuscript to the Wittenberg Symposium.

 

Wittenberg College*s decision to confer an honorary degree on Adler; Adler's plans for travel in the USA and plans to lecture at Wittenberg and accept the Honorary Degree. Telegram of 4‑12‑28 indicated that Adler planned to arrive at Wittenberg on 4‑20


 

Folder   Charles Spearman Correspondence

 

Correspondence between Reymert and Charles Spearman of England from 1929‑45. Much of it is personal and family news. Among the other topics of the correspondence:

 

Corr. of 1930 in which Reymert discusses his new work at Mooseheart and describes the type of research conducted there.

 

1931 discussion of the fact that Spearman is spending part of a year at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, and Reymert's hope that he will be able to visit Mooseheart.

 

1932 discussion of Spearman's visit to George Peabody College, Nashville and Reymert's invitation for Spearman to travel to Mooseheart.

 

1932 plans for Spearman to address the Chicago Psychological Club.

 

1933 letters to Spearman from Reymert re. inventories of tests being used at the Mooseheart Laboratory. Evidently these tests were being used in connection with a research project of interest to Spearman.

 

Corr. of April, 1933 between Spearman and Reymert re. Spearman's proposed address before the Midwestern Psych. Assn. on the topic: The Plan (now in operation) for an Extensive Investigation of Unitary Traits in Ability. The continuation of the Investigation seems threatened by the possibility that the Mooseheart Laboratory will have to discontinue operation.

 

Correspondence of 1933 re. data being collected at Mooseheart for Spearman's research project.

 

Correspondence of 1933 re. a difference of opinion between Spearman and Robert Tryon. Includes 2 pages evidently by Spearman entitled NOTES ON TRYON'S PRESENTATION and a copy of a letter from Spearman to Professor Tryon (12‑23‑33). The subject of this debate is evidently the "Two Factor Theory".

 

1933 mention of the possibility of Edgar Doll visiting with Spearman while in England.

 

1935 discussion of Spearman's plans to attend APA.

 

1935 references in Reymert's letters to work with Holzinger on the "Mooseheart Correlations" which Are of evident interest to Spearman.

 

1935 discussion of recent publications including that of "Studman" on 11011.

 

Photo of Spearman‑ Individual portrait. Probably received by Reymert in 1935.

 


 

1938 discussion of plans for the publication of "Thomson's article on Link's P.Q. Test'.'

 

In 1938 Reymert writes to Spearman of the former's involvement with Holzinger and Freeman of the U. of Chicago on the standardization of a new mental'test series.

 

Letters of 1939 from Reymert to Spearman and to his daughter Joy who had spent a Christmas vacation with the Reymerts.

 

Letters of 1945 from Reymert to Spearman and to Reymert's nephew re. the recent visit of the nephew to England and the Spearmans' hospitality.

 

Folder   The Dionne Quintuplets

 

Photo ( 2 copies) of the Quintuplets.

 

Unidentified photo taken from a magazine. Probably that of Dr. Allan R. Dafoe who delivered the babies and served as their physician and one of their guardians.

 

Oversize index cards with typewritten notes about the care of the quintuplets‑‑ their daily routine, food, sleep habits, social adjustment, etc.

 

A banquet programme for a Confer ence on Research Studies on The Dionne Quintupletsheld in Toronto in Oct., 1937. Reymert attended.

 

Correspondence of 1937 between Reymert and W.E. Bletz re. an invitation for Reymert to attend a conference in Toronto, Oct., 1937 to discuss research with the quintuplets.

 

Several newspaper clippings of 1937 re. the Toronto Research Conference.

 

2 pages, carbon copy. Statement of confidence in the work of the conference for research with the Dionne Quintuplets. Signed by "The Committee"‑ Willard C. Olson, Martin Reymert, Harold H. Anderson.

 

2 pages, carbon copy. Title: MOOSEHEART HONORED BY INVITATION TO CONFERENCE ON DIONNE QUINTUPLETS, An outline of the purpose of the conf. and information re. some of the participants.

 

2 pages re. the quintuplets. Title: SELF‑ DISCIPLINE.

 

8 typewritten pages. Prepared for the Aurora Beacon News of 12‑26‑3,7: MOOSEHEART PSYCHOLOGIST TELLS RESULTS OF BOARD'S STUDY OF DIONNE QUIN­TUPLETS.

 


9 pages, carbon copy. Report of a speech by Reymert on the Totonto conference for the study of the quintuplets.

 

Folder   Letters of Sympathy.

 

Many letters of sympathy sent to Mrs. Reymert after the death of her husband on 6‑2‑53. Also, a few letters sent to Reymert during his illness. Some are telegrams; many are from organizations with which Reymert was associated; some from Norway. Among the letters are those from the following psychologists:

 

John E. Anderson                      Nathan Shock                Stanley Marzolf

Ross Stagner                            George Lawton              H. Gulliksen

Sidney L. Pressey

 

Folder   Obituaries and Tributes

 

Several snapshots of the cemetery and burial place of Reymert in Springfield, Ohio.

 

1 page of handwritten signatures of persons who called at the Funeral Home.

 

Many clippings from newspapers, journals, the church bulletin, etc. announcing the death of Reymert and paying tribute to his contributions.

Some are from foreign sources.

 

 


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COLLECTION NAME: Reymert Papers

LOCATION: M 1229

 

Folder   Norwegian Contacts

 

Booklet entitled NOTABLE AMERICANS OF FOREIGN BIRTH. By the Common Council for American Unity. 1938‑39. Reymert is among those listed.

 

Cover from a pamphlet. Illustration of the Norwegian flag.

 

Undated letter from the Norwegian Embassy to Reymert presenting Reymert with a Diploma from the King of Norway in recognition of valuable service to Norway during the "last war". The Diploma is not enclosed.

 

2 typewritten pages discussing the etchings of Arent and Christian Christensen, Norwegian artists.

 

Address of President Coolidge before the Norwegian Centennial Celebration at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds, 6‑8‑25.

 

Program for a Banquet sponsored by the Norwegian‑American Committee of Chicago on 5‑5‑39 listing the Honored Guests as Prince Olav and Princess Martha of Norway. R eymert is listed as a member of the Honorary Welcome Committee.

 

Letter of 3‑24‑39 to Reymert from Sigurd Maseng, Consul, re. Reymert's service on the Honorary Welcome Committee in connection with the visit of the Prince and Princess of Norway to Chicago.

 

Program for the 17th of May Crusade for Norwegian Relief to be held at the Trinity Lutheran Church of New York and Smith Streets (city?), on 5‑17‑?. Reymert is on the program

 

Letter of 8‑6‑68 to Mrs. Reymert from the Acquisition Librarian of the Luther College Library, Decorah, Iowa listing titles of books (with Norwegian titles) sent to the library as gifts.

 

Telegram of 5‑19‑38 to the Norwegian Relief Committee and Reymert from the King of Norway, King Haakon: "Please accept my warm thanks for your kind telegram on behalf of Norwegian Americans of Aurora".

 

1927 list of the Members of the Springfield (Ohio) Chapter of the American Scandinavian Foundation. Letter of 3‑12‑28 to Mr. Creese from Reymert listing the officers of the Chapter with Reymert listed as President.

 

Program for an observance of National Children's Week of 3‑7‑39. Held at Lewistown, Pa. Reymert addressed the group. Title of his pre­sentation: "What Should We All Know About Our Children?" A newspaper column report of Reymert's lecture is enclosed.

 

Newspaper columns reporting on the Centennial Celebration in Janesville, Wisconsin. Reymert participated and told of his Norwegian ancestors and 'their role in Wisconsin history. 8‑28‑39.

 


 

Folder   Miscellaneous Correspondence.

 

Correspondence of 1951 among personnel of The Reader's Digest, Reymert, and Oscar Hammerstein, II. re. an art Reymert was preparing for Reader's Digest to support 'his statement..."Human personality and character are made in all their matrixes at five or at least seven years of age." Reymert wishes to introduce the article with lines from a song, "Carefully Taught" from the musical "South Pacific".. Hammerstein grants permission. Reymert's 20‑page‑long ms. entitled PARENTS ' It's Later Than You Think.! is enclosed.

 

Correspondence of 1941 among Reymert; Senator George W. Pepper, Pres. of the American Law Institute; and W.J. Leinweber, Supt. of Mooseheart. Topic: Reymert's willingness to serve as a consultant in connection with the State of Illinois' efforts to pass a Youth Correction Act.

 

Invitation from the Office of the President of the United States for Reymert to participate in the meetings of the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth to be held on Dec. 3‑7, 1950.

 

Letter of 8‑1‑45 to Reymert from Dwight Green, Governor of Illinois appointing Reymert a member of the Board of Public Welfare Commissioners.

 

Letter of 1‑24‑49 to Reymert from Adlai Stevenson, Gov. of Illinois re. receipt of Reymert's resignation from the Board of Public Welfare.

 

Undated letter to "Dear Sir or Madam" from Leonard Carmichael, Director, Executive Office of the President for National Resources Planning Board. A request for biographical information to be used in developing a Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel.

 

Corr. of 1950 between Reymert and Paul S. Boderman re. Reymert's willing­ness to serve in a project for "In‑Service Teacher Education in Germany" to be sponsored by the Division of International Educational Relations, Office of Education.

 

Corr.. of 1950 in which Reymert sends carbon copies of 2 pages of results from Reymert's study 1918 Norwegian study to Dorothy Barclay, Parent and Child Editor for the New York Times. She is interested in children's "positive identifications".

 

Letters of 1948 to Reymert from Ernest Harms re. the founding of the International Council for the Mental,Health of Children and efforts to find charter members. Harms is the first Secr,etary of the Council. Included is a copy of a letter from the President of the Council, Leo Kanner announcing the existence of the organization and outlining its aspirations. Kanner's letter was published in The Nervous Child, Vol. VII, No.3. A list of charter members is enclosed.

 

Carbon copy of a letter of 3‑25‑44 to Reymert from J. Edgar Hoover, Dir. of the F.B.I. thanking Reymert for a letter and an article.

 


Letter of 1‑24‑39 to Florence Goodenough from Reymert in which Reymert states that he is sending to her a manuscript prepared for publication in the National Year Book.

 

Correspondence of 1938‑39 between Reymert and Lewis M. Terman re. Reymert's willingness to publish the results of a Mooseheart study on the stability of the I.Q. over a five year period in the superior Mooseheart euvironment as compared to poor home conditions before entrance. This leads to lengthy debate over genetic difference;; educational and income levels of the parents; regression of the IQ on retests; references to the "Iowa people" and their claims for improving IQ's.

 

Letter of 3‑23‑36 to Reymert from T. Wingate Todd of the School of Medicine, Anatomy lab., Western Reserve University reporting on x‑rays for 2 girls being studied.

 

Letter of 7‑27‑29 from Reymert to Raymond Dodge re. plans for a Symposium on Mental Tests, and plans for publication of the abstracts.

 

Brief correspondence of 1927 among Reymert, E.B. Titchener, and James P. Porter, Editor of The Journal of Applied Psychology re. Reymert's feeling that an a~_tic'le "Correctness of Judgment Based on Sensation Intensities and Time Allowed for Making Judgments" by Walter Scott McNutt which was published in the March, 1926 issue of the Journal of Applied Psych.contained material taken directly from E.B. Titchener's Textbook of Psychology. Reymert's ms. entitled

"A Case of Plagiarism" was published in the News and Notes column of the Journal of Applied Psych., Aug., 1930.

 

Folder   Conferences, etc.

 

Group photos of the Advisory Board, Illinois State Division for Delinquency Prevention (includes Reymert); APA Members who visited Mooseheart 9-9-33;  5 group photos of members of the 1932 meeting of the Advisory Council for Child Research ( includes Reymert, Edgar Doll, John E. Anderson, C.H. Judd); photo of Reymert, an unidentified man and a child in a sandbox.

 

Copies of 2 pages from the front of a publication entitled OELINQUENCY PREVENTION. Published by the State of Illinois. Lists Reymert as President of Big Brothers and Sisters Assn. of Illinois.

 

Copy of the Table of Contents from a publication entitled AMERICAN YOUTH AFTER THE WAR. Edited by Ernest Harms. An article entitled Juvenile Delinquency by Reymert is listed.

 

Program from the Pennsylvania Welfare Conference, Oct. 2;5, 1951. Reymert is listed on the program.

 

Program from the Ohio Welfare Conference of Nov., 1945. Reymert is listed on the program.

 


Program from the Annual Meeting, 1952. Northern Illinois Association of Child Care Institutions. Nov. 6, 1952. Reymert is listed as a participant.

 

Program from the Annual Mid‑Winter Conference of the Loyal Order of the Moose, Feb., 1934. Held.at Mooseheart. Reymert, Edgar Doll, John Anderson , C.H. Judd are among the participants listed.

 

Provisional list of papers for the Tenth International Congress of Psych., Copenhagen, 1932.

 

Description of a Handbook of ' Child Guidance, edited by Ernest Harms. Contains a chapter by Reymert.

 

Description of The Nervous Child, Vol. 9, 1951 Includes a photo and biographical sketch of Reymert.

 

Description of the Quarterly Journal of Psychopathology,Psychotherapy, Mental Hygiene and Guidance of the Child, The Nervous Child , Edited by Ernest Harms. Reymert is listed as an Associate Editor.

 

Booklet describing the Dyslexia Memorial Institute. Reymert is listed as a member of the Counselor Staff.

 

Report(77 pages long) by the Director of the Mooseheart Laboratory for Child Research, Martin Reymert,to the National Advisory Council for Research at Mooseheart and to the Director General, Loyal Order of Moose; and to the Supt. of Mooseheart and to the Board of Mooseheart Governors. January 12‑13, 1951. Includes reports by the following psychologists:

 

James Winker                           Ralph Meister                            John Warren Thiesen

Helen E. Miller                           Raymond B. Cattell                    Walter Gruen

 

Folder   Certificates, Honors, and Membership Cards

 

Printing blocks for Reymert's signature and bookplates, business cards

 

Card of 7‑31‑19 stating that Reymert had been appointed a Research Assistant in the Child Welfare Station, University of Iowa.

 

Certificate showing that Reymert had been elected a Fellow of the American Assn. for Applied Psychology, Inc. on 9‑5‑38.

 

Reymert's membership card for Optimist International, 12‑31‑27.

 

The Pilgrim Degree of the Loyal Order of the Moose; also a card showing that Reymert was a Life member of the Loyal Order of Moose.'

 


Card from the War Department, 1919, showing that Reymert's Draft Classification was 5‑F.

 

Certificate dated 1‑1‑20 dating that Reymert had been elected a Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

 

Reymert's Certification of Membership in the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity on 3‑15‑33.

 

Announcement of Reymert's election to membership in the APA. 12‑28‑26.

 

Certificate of 6=18=52 from the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce presenting Reymert with a key to My Old Kentucky Home.

 

Certificate of Honorary Membership in The International Mark Twain Society, Feb.24, 1951.

 

Letter of 5‑4‑43 to Reymert from J. Edgar Hoover re. a statement from the FBI to be read at the opening session of the 12th Annual Delinquency Prevention Conference on 5‑6‑43. There are handwritten notes on the back of the letter.

 

Letter of 1‑31‑46 to Reymert from the Office of the Attorney General re. Reymert's work on juvenile delinquency.

 

Correspondence of 1940‑49 among Reymert and Governors of the State of Illinois in which Reymert is appointed to several advisory posts in the Welfare Dept. of Illinois. Certificates recognizing his service are also enclosed.

 

Certificate from the Governor of Illinois appointing Reymert to attend the 63rd annual meeting of the National Conference of Social Work to be held in Atlantic City in May, 1936.

 

1 certificate and I card evidently denoting membership in 2 Norwegian organizations. One is dated 1942, the other, 1946.

 

Folder   Elbow Ergograph

 

Pages 103‑111 of an unidentified publication. Handwritten dated at the top: '19. Article by Reymert entitled A New Elbow Ergograph. 4 Photos of the ergograph are enclosed.

 

Folder   Reymert's Dissertation.

 

OBJECTIVE STUDY OF TEACHERS. Submitted by Martin L. Reymert to the Faculty of Clark University, Worcester., Massachusetts as his doctoral dissertation. Undated.

 

 


 

Folder   Jack Armstrong, 1942.

 

Material re. Reymert's consultations on radio scripts for "Jack Armstrong". Some of Reymert's comments were published in the Official Publication of the Illinois Education Association. 1 reprint from the issue of May, 1942 is entitled STANDARDS FOR CHILDREN'S RADIO PROGRAMS As Applied to the Scripts of "Jack Armstrong".

 

Several pages of typewritten comments on the scripts.

 

Folder   Reymert Speeches, I.

 

Outline of Reymert's address of 3‑31‑37 for the Adult Education Forum, Mooseheart, Illinois. Topic: Some Phases of Human Relationships. Has handwritten annotations.

 

5 pages, carbon copy. 11‑10‑51. Title: COOPERATION BETWEEN ESTABLISHED SOCIAL AGENCIES AND FRATERNAL ORDERS. Evidently a report on Reymert's participation in the 20th Annual Meeting of the West Virginia Conference of Social Work.

 

9 typewritten pages, plus Bibliography. Title: SOME NOTES ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING. Presented to the Mooseheart High School Faculty. 2‑7‑40. Annotated.

 

14 pages, carbon copy. Speech delivered at Ohio State Welfare Conference, 9‑28‑39. Title SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE PREVENTION OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY.

 

8 pages, carbon copy. Title: PSYCHOLOGY AND JUVENILE CRIME. Audience?

 

3 pages entitled NATIONAL NORWEGIAN WEEK. Oct., 1935. Brief radio address for station WJJD. Heavily annotated version of the same address.

 

4 pages, annotated. NOTES ON DR. REYMERT'S 17th OF MAY SPEECH, Humboldt Park, Chicago, 1935. Delivered in Norwegian. Translation in English is enclosed.

 

Poem by Virginia Phillips. TOAST TO NORWAY.

 

11 pages, carbon copy. Questions and Answers Concerning the Mooseheart Laboratory for Child Research. By the Director of the Lab. and Staff. Date?

 

5 pages entitled HOW RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT IS CHANGING EDUCATIONAL OUTLOOK. Undated.


 

10 pages entitled THE MASS MEDIA IN EDUCATION( AS COMMERCIALLY SPONSORED) AND YOUTH BEHAVIOR. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Illinois Div. for Youth and Community Service, State Dept. of Public Welfare, Chicago, 5­18‑50.

 

3 pages entitled SOME PROBLEMS OF PARENTS IN WARTIME. Undated. Audience?

 

Folder   Reymert Speeches, II.

 

18 pages, carbon copy. Title: MEETING THE DEVELOPMENTAL NEEDS OF THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS (7th, 8th and 9th grades)_‑ A CHALLENGE TO THE SCHOOLS. For an unidentified audience. Undated.

 

7 typewritten pages. 4‑2‑?. 15 minute radio interview. Station WDGY. Topic:.Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency and the Illinois State Set‑up.

 

15 pages, carbon copy. Title PREVENTION OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND THE ILLINOIS STATE SET‑UP. Prepared for the Rotary Club. Undated.

 

5 typewritten pages entitled The Importance of the Child as a Whole. 9‑2‑32. Heavily annotated.

 

23 pages, carbon copy. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CIVILIAN AND MILITARY MORALE IN A DEMOCRACY. Lecture delivered to the National Conference of Social Workers, New Orleans, 5‑15‑42.

 

14 pages, carbon copy. Title: CHILD GUIDANCE CLINICS AND PREVENTION OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY. Notes compiled at the request of the Supt. of the Division of Delinquency Prevention for the State of Illinois.

 

8 pages, carbo n copy. Title: THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND NATIONAL DEFENSE.

pages entitled HOW DID WE GET TO BE WHAT WE ARE NOW? Undated. For an unidentified audience.

 

3 pages entitled EMOTIONAL STRESS VS. CHARM. Abstract of a talk de­livered at The Charm School, International Conference of the Women of the Moose, Mooseheart, June, 1939.


 

Folder   Information re. Wittenberg Symposium

 

2 oversize pages of handwritten information re. manuscripts to be presented at the Wittenberg Symposium on Feelings and Emotions, 1928. Types of info.: author; whether or not the ms. had arrived; whether or not the ms. would need translating.

 

Folder   Signatures

 

10 oversize pages of signatures of those who attended the Wittenberg Symposium. Also, info. re. their position and rank, institution, address, whether or not they were official delegates.

 

Folder   Photos

 

 4 individual photos of Martin Reymert.

 

I group photo of the Clark Conference, 1909. (Xerox Copy)

 

Folder   Transcript and Schedule of Recitations

 

18 oversize pages. Report of the Wittenberg Symposium on Feelings and Emotions. Includes questions and answers following the presentation of several of the papers.

 

Schedule of Recitations for the Sceond Semester, 1926‑2i, Wittenberg College.

 

Folder   Mooseheart Laboratory

 

47 pages from a small 3‑ring binder, "The Mooseheart Laboratory for Child Research, Visitors and Special Events"

 

2 pages listing "Research Guests at Mooseheart"