Word: working
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laboratory of Educational Psychology on the processes and mechanisms of reading. Defects in reading may result form wrong habits established in early years and may prevent the attainment of normal speed in reading throughout life. Slow reading is a tremendous handicap in study at every level. The work already done in this subject at the Graduate School of Education promises to lay bare the causes of difficulty in reading and provide meant for at least a partial correction...
...fund which has just been given will not only allow the Graduate School of Education to expand its present research, but will also afford an opportunity to devote money to other necessary developments which were previously impossible because all available funds were consumed by the work then in progress. Although the present acquisition does not solve all of the financial problems of the school, it does aid the situation considerably and points to the possibility of a brighter future...
Under present conditions with so much stress on education, it is a healthy sign that experimental work in that field is receiving recognition. The training of the mind is an essential element in modern life, and attention must not be given exclusively to the actual mechanics of educating. The problems of how and why are every bit as important and it is the answer to the questions that arise in the latter connection with which the School of Education is concerned. Any assistance that is given to help to accomplish this aim is a well directed and intelligent...
Medical and dental examination of Boston settlement house children is to be provided in the near future by the Phillips Brooks House Association, it was announced yesterday by J. H. Lane IG. B., graduate secretary of that organization. The work will be undertaken by students of the Medical and Dental Schools and will consist of diagnostic examination only...
...Seniors, one from the Medical and one from the Dental School, will hold "fellowships" to do this work. A nominal remuneration will be given to these men in return for their time...