{"id":8263,"date":"2016-05-04T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T14:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=8263"},"modified":"2016-05-02T12:44:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T19:44:39","slug":"from-the-archives-special-collections-good-habits-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/from-the-archives-special-collections-good-habits-101\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Archives &amp; Special Collections: Good Habits 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2016\/05\/CALLOUT_GoodHabits101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8266\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2016\/05\/CALLOUT_GoodHabits101.jpg\" alt=\"CALLOUT_GoodHabits101\" width=\"330\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a>Education has changed a lot over the past eighty years, so to get an idea of what was taught in elementary school during that time we are going back to 1935 when the book <em>Good Habits <\/em>by Charters, Smiley, and Strang, the fourth book in the <a href=\"http:\/\/alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/UPUGS:upugs_alma:CP71132122530001451\">Health and Growth Series<\/a>, was written. This book, along with five others, tells short stories of children and how they form good habits in their lives. Throughout the book, there are vocabulary words that are defined in the index. The purpose of this was to teach children health related words so that they were prepared to \u201cread intelligently popular health articles after graduation and in adult life.\u201d As mentioned in the foreword, the authors\u2019 intentions for writing this book was to \u201cmake its mastery so interesting that it becomes a favorite subject of study\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2016\/05\/GoodHabits_brushing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-8265 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2016\/05\/GoodHabits_brushing.jpg\" alt=\"GoodHabits_brushing\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a>establish habits of health\u2026and furnish the child with latest scientific information about health and disease.\u201d This book is very much an old fashioned lesson book used by teachers to teach their students about healthy living.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pugetsound.edu\/academics\/academic-resources\/collins-memorial-library\/archives\/\">Archives &amp; Special Collections<\/a> is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 1:00-3:00 p.m. or by appointment.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Sierra Scott<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education has changed a lot over the past eighty years, so to get an idea of what was taught in elementary school during that time we are going back to 1935 when the book Good Habits by Charters, Smiley, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/from-the-archives-special-collections-good-habits-101\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8267,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8263\/revisions\/8267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}