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Edward S. Harkness, donor of $13,000,000 for the institution of the Harvard House Plan, was in Boston and Cambridge during the last two days. He came to attend a dinner given by the Tavern Club in his honor last night at the club house, 4 Boylston Place, Boston...
A grant of $62,500 has been made by the General Education Board of New York to the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the support of the Harvard Growth Study. It was announced yesterday by Dean B. W. Holmes '03.
The Harvard Growth Study is unique and it is of exceptional important to the science of education and to every form of practical effort for the benefit of children. It consists of repeated measurements of the same children throughout the 12 years of their schooling by all the main, standardized...
The work was begun in the fall of 1921, and is therefore in its ninth year. The first measurements were made on a group of several thousand children shortly after their entrance into school. These children have been measured each succeeding year, and it is the intention of the investigators...
Professor W. F. Dearborn, of the graduate School of Education, conceived the idea of the study and has directed it from the beginning. It was supported in 1921-22 and 1922-23 by the commonwealth Fund, which granted $16,000 in each of these years to the Harvard Graduate School...