Word: mateer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many cases children who read badly are helped by pituitary extracts. Conversely, 90% of all cases of pituitary deficiency studied have difficulty in reading. -Dr. Florence Mateer, Merryheart Schools (Columbus, Ohio...
...less able were a second and third generation of missionaries. Presbyterian Calvin Wilson Mateer (1836-1908) dabbled as a child in machinery and electricity, liked to make things "go and then go faster." He went to China, a six-month journey, spent 45 years there with only three vacations. Missionary Mateer studied Chinese, wrote "Mandarin Lessons" which simplified learning the language, built a foreign scientific museum, and with six students founded Shantung College, today the Arts College of Shantung Christian University...