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September 6. — The Surgeon General notified by The Adjutant General of issuance of instruc- 

 tions. 



August 17 to September 17. — Preparation of methods, materials, and personnel for official 

 trial of methods in the Army. 



September 17 to December 1. — Period of official trial in four cantonments. 



October 1. — Psychological examining in progress in Camps Devens, Dix, Lee, and Taylor. 



October 20. — Preliminary reports of results from camps indicate (1) surprisingly high 

 frequency of illiteracy; (2) extreme differences in frequency of illiteracy and in distribution of 

 intelligence for companies of a given regiment; (3) urgent need of a good group method of 

 examining foreign and illiterate subjects. 



November 5. — Request by the Surgeon General of the Army that the Committee on Classi- 

 fication of Personnel in the Army provide in its organization for the psychological examination 

 of recruits. 



November 16. — Report on official inspection of psychological examining in Camp Lee, Va., 

 submitted to the Surgeon General by Col. Hemy A. Shaw, M. C. 



December 5. — Chief of the Section of Psychology requests decision of the Surgeon General 

 concerning the future policy of the War Department with regard to the psychological examina- 

 tion of recruits. 



December 7. — The Surgeon General recommends to The Adjutant General the continuation 

 of psychological examining and its extension to the entire Army. 



December S. — Request of the Surgeon General that psychological examining be provided 

 for by the Committee on Classification of Personnel disapproved by that committee for The 

 Adjutant General of the Army. 



December 8 to 20. — Transmittal to the General Staff of data concerning psychological exam- 

 ining in Army camps, memoranda on plans of future organization, and the opinions of regimental 

 and company commanders concerning the values of intelligence ratings. 



December 24- — Approval by the War Department of the recommendation of the Surgeon 

 General that psychological examining be extended to the entire Army, with request for plan of 

 organization. 



1918. 



January 3. — Plan for the extension of psychological examining submitted by the Surgeon 

 General to The Adjutant General. It was subsequently referred to the training committee of 

 the War College Division of the General Staff. 



January 19. — Plan for extension approved. Organization of Division of Psychology in the 

 office of the Surgeon General authorized for the purpose of making psychological examination 

 of all company officers, all candidate officers in officers' training camps, and also of all the newly 

 drafted and enlisted men. The approval explicitly included the provision of the necessary 

 commissioned and enlisted personnel, the establishment of a school of military psychology, and 

 the construction of a special building in each camp or cantonment. 



January 20. — School of Military Psychology at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., authorized for the 

 Surgeon General by the chief of the training division of his office. 



January 28. — Plans for special building completed and submitted to the construction 

 department. 



February 4- — School of Military Psychology organized at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. 



February 5. — Acting Quartermaster General indorses plans and estimates for special building 

 to the Chief of Staff and requests authority to proceed with construction in accordance with 

 previous instructions from the Secretary of War. 



February 11. — On recommendation of equipment committee of the General Staff, the 

 Assistant Secretary of War disapproves construction of special buildings "until such time as 

 necessary funds ($384,000) are made available by Congress." 



February 14- — The Surgeon General of the Army requests reconsideration of Acting Quarter- 

 master General's recommendation concerning buildings for psychological examining. 



February 19.— Request of the Surgeon General is disapproved. 



