UNIVERSITY LECTURES
A series of six public: lectures : on ‘Social Adjustment,’ to bo commenced at the Otago University on July o, should prove of great public interest. The object of the lectures is to deal scientifically with social misfits, as well as with the general problem or the social adaptation of the normal individual. Necessarily the subjects must include -delinquency, mental hygiene, difficult children, retardation, and the question of providing an adequate school syllabus. The opening lecturer will be Dr Gray, inspector general of mental hospitals, who will speak on A State Programme for the Treatment of Social Inadequacy.’ Parents, teachers, and the public generally will have an opportunity of hearing heredity scientifically presented. H is hoped that the public will respond in large numbers to the attempt on the part of the University to popularise recent scientific knowledge. That there is need for knowledge on this topic is shown by the fact that the report of the Otago Education Hoard issued last year showed 28 per cent, of retardates in Otago schools.
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Evening Star, Issue 19894, 16 June 1928, Page 5
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173UNIVERSITY LECTURES Evening Star, Issue 19894, 16 June 1928, Page 5
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