Mental development and education . requirements. If the cadetis ten seconds behind time at any exercise; if he shows theslightest discourtesy toward any officer; if he becomes negligentor indifferent either in the classroom or in his military exerciseshe is reported for misconduct and penalized. 18. Comment on the relations between adolescent boys andthe girls shown in the foreground of the accompanying picture.(Fig. 78.) Should such relations be allowed? Should the rela-tions shown in Fig. 27, p. 182, be encouraged? 35-^ MENTAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION 19. In the following passiigc Jordan an
Mental development and education . requirements. If the cadetis ten seconds behind time at any exercise; if he shows theslightest discourtesy toward any officer; if he becomes negligentor indifferent either in the classroom or in his military exerciseshe is reported for misconduct and penalized. 18. Comment on the relations between adolescent boys andthe girls shown in the foreground of the accompanying picture.(Fig. 78.) Should such relations be allowed? Should the rela-tions shown in Fig. 27, p. 182, be encouraged? 35-^ MENTAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION 19. In the following passiigc Jordan and Kellogg (Icscribothe phenomena of courtship among certain species of animals;may similar phenomena be observed in human life during theadolescent period? Point out impUcations of your answer sofar as adolescent boys and girls are concerned. The instincts of courtship relate chiefly to the male, the femalebeing more or less passive. Among many fishes the male strutsbefore the female, spreading his fins, intensifying his pigmented. Fig. 78. — Unwholesome relations ul aclolusa-nt boys ami girls. (.Sec exercise 18.) colors through muscular tension, and in such fashion as he canmakes himself the preferred of the female. In the little brooksin spring male minnows can be found with warts on the nose orhead, with crimson pigment on the fins, or blue pigment on theback, or jet-black pigment all over the head, or with variedcombinations of all these. Their instinct is to display all theseto the best advantage, even though the conspicuous hues leadto their own destruction. Against this contingency nature pro-vides a superfluity of males. ACTIMTIES PECULIAR TO ADOLESCENCE 353 Among the birds the male in spring is in very many speciesprovided with an ornamental plumage which he sheds when thebreeding season is over. The scarlet, crimson, orange, blue,black, and lustrous colors of birds are commonly seen only onthe males in the breeding season, the young males and all malesin the fall ha
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