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...these reasons, the Division of Education plans to establish in the near future a Graduate School for the training of teachers and school officers. This school would put professional training for school work on a level at the University with the professional training for the law, the ministry; architecture, medicine and so forth...
...fund for this Graduate School of Education was started last year by a gift of $500,000 from the General Educational Board, and other gifts brought the fund to nearly $1,200,000 by the middle of last July, when the campaign was merged with that for the general Endowment Fund under an agreement whereby the school is to receive from the Endowment Fund enough to bring its own fund up to $2,000,000 as soon as the Endowment Fund reaches a total...
...purpose of this Graduate School of Education will be to train both the inexperienced students intending to teach and experienced teachers who wish professional improvement. Its most advanced students will be candidates for the Doctor's Degree in Education and will take posts as city, school, or state superintendents, principals of public and private schools, normal school teachers, and college teachers of education. The Division of Education has already trained considerable numbers of such students, and has sent out, since 1905, 18 students who have secured the Doctor's degree in preparation for school work...
...Graduate School will also conduct research and investigation in education. It will maintain a Laboratory of Educational Psychology as at present, and in addition a clinic for the special study of children. School problems will be studied both in the schools and in the laboratory, and members of the Faculty will undertake surveys of schools and school systems. Work of this character has been conducted at Harvard since 1891, but has not developed as rapidly as at some other universities because of lack of means. Members of the present staff of the Division of Education have contributed in various ways...
...pool and billiard tables, in the best of condition, which are an added feature of the club. A billiard expert of Boston, Mr. Ben Laurie, is in charge here. On the main floor there is a well-fitted reading and writing room. where all current magazines, college and school publications and daily papers from the chief cities of the United States are kept on file...