Word: growth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...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...
...gift will be of great assistance to the Graduate School in its new program, under which it has raised and substantially changed its requirements for the degrees of Master of Education and Doctor of Education. The removal of the expense of supporting the Growth Study out of its regular income will consequently make possible other advances in the work of the School which have up to this time been impossible...
...growth of the popularity of boxing at Harvard in the last few years has generated a movement in the University to make this one of the regular intercollegiate winter sports...
Occupational surveys of Harvard graduating classes have been made in 1923, 1924, 1925, and 1926. Throughout these four years, business was the most popular field, followed by law; also significant was the growth of the architecture, fine arts, and government groups, and the decline in preference for engineering, and teaching. New England and the Middle Atlantic States were preferred locations for work as expressed by the Class...