DEARBORN WILL STUDY DEVELOPMENT OF CHILD

The study of the mental and physical growth of school children from the time they enter school until they graduate is the object of an investigation by Professor W. F. Dearborn, which he intends to further with the funds from one of the Milton Awards which he recently received.

"Each year I have been supervising the recording of the individual height, weight, and general physical development of from four to five thousand school children in and around Boston," Professor Dearborn told a CRIMSON, reporter yesterday.

"X-rays are taken to determine the bone development in each child. The wrist bone is particularly important in this connection because it is a sort of indicator of the whole development. These individual physical examinations are fairly complete, but so far we have been unable to give individual mental tests to more than four or five hundred students a year.

"Mental groups tests much like the army tests are given to the majority of the pupils, but it is the administering of individual tests to all the children which we hope to accomplish with the Milton Award.

"A test such as the Stanford Binet would be the one which all pupils would be subjected to. The Stanford Binet test varies for different ages. Some of the younger children, for example, are required to put a number of pictures in their proper succession, and do exercises of a like nature.

"The work was commenced in 1921 and is now only half completed. In 1921 observations were taken of 5000 pupils just entering school, and they will be kept up year by year until the children graduate. Of course a considerable number leave school each year for one reason or another, but there are still more than 4000 left."