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 MORAL INFLUENCE OF PUBERAL DEVELOPMENT 209

itself, there being an increase in the number of good and medium, while the bad disappear almost entirely.

I could get only very limited information about the normal girls of other educational institutions. Reports came to me from two institutions, one in our city (Turin), one abroad. In the Turin institution the girls, to the number of thirty-five, are divided, according to conduct, as follows :

CONDUCT OF THE GIRLS, ACCORDING TO THE AGE AND THE PUBERAL

DEVELOPMENT.

Ae=

Puberal development

Number

Good

Medium

Reprehensible

13

without menstruat'n

I

J

13

with "

I

I

14

without "

14

with "

6

2

2

2

15

without "

2

I

I

15

with "

6

Z

3

2

16

without "

16

with "

7

3

3

I

17

without "

17

with "

2

I

I

18

without "

18

with "

10

7

3

and over

It is obvious that reprehensible is taken in a relative sense, that is, with respect to study and the performance of tasks as well as to the observance of discipline and bearing toward fellow- students, without implying conditions which, naturally, would be incompatible with continuance in a school of high rank.

To these data I may add those which show the conduct of the pupils of the educational institute of Romanshorn, Switzer- land. For these students, however, the conduct was judged separately in its real factors, that is, discipline, application to study, and morality. By morality Miss LoUi Kofer, director of the institute, designates the sum total of the active moral qual- ities, such as abnegation, generosity, love of truth, constancy, delicacy of conscience, noting expressly that as to morality in the common acceptation of that word all of her pupils, without exception, leave nothing to be desired.