Word: harvardized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 measures of growth, physical, intellectual and scholastic...
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 of Education for this purpose. The Commonwealth Fund limited its grants for educational research, on principle, to two years, and it has since withdrawn from this field of activity altogether. From 1923-24 through 1928-29 the School supported the study out of its unrestricted income, and the University...
...Graduate School of Education with its new endowment of sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars has at last come into some of its rightful heritage as an institution for recognized professional training. In the past it has received far less financial aid than the other graduate schools in Harvard, and for some time it looked as if it would be just another case of the flower wasting its sweetness on a very arid desert air. Fortunately this impression has now been proved unfounded and the school is being offered some materials and opportunity for development...
...from the board of trustees of the Watch and Ward Society removes all possibility of his being put in an anomalous position when he takes up the active duties of House Master next fall. As House Master he will in a way officially represent a relatively large group of Harvard mon, and his connection with a quasi-political organization such as the Watch and Ward might well be misinterpreted as lending a sort of Harvard support...
...well to point out that a College official such as the House Master not only identifies himself more closely with the properly nonpartisan attitude of the institution which he represents than does a professor but also comes into a new relationship with the undergraduate. The fact that many Harvard men are thoroughly out of sympathy with the aims and methods of the Watch and Ward Society makes it doubly desirable that University officials keep themselves from mixing in the many controversial questions with which the Society busies itself...