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EXAMINATION of immigrants at Ellis Island has been stimulated by fervid political propaganda maintaining that north-western Europe is better than south-eastern, and by sob-stuff propaganda dilating the hardships of those rejected by the apostles of eugenics. Mental measurements now permit exact inquiry.
A Psychological Study of Immigrant Children at Ellis Island.
By Dr. Bertha M. Boody. (Mental Measurement Monographs, Serial No. 3.) Pp. vi + 163. (Baltimore, Md.: Williams and Wilkins Co.; London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1926.) 18s. net.
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RICHARDSON, H. A Psychological Study of Immigrant Children at Ellis Island . Nature 118, 406 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118406b0
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