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CITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 



Garden Club has developed wonderfully and has provided excellent 

 extension courses in landscape and vegetable gardening. 



Evening Openings. 



Evening openings have afforded Scout leaders opportunity to prepare 

 for work with their troops, and there have been evening gatherings of 

 the Business Women's Club, the Girls' City Club, and of our affiliated 

 societies. 



Bird Study Prizes. 



Mr. Robert Morris has again made it possible to offer the children 

 bird study prizes. Although the contest this year has additional features 

 requiring more work, interest is keen and a great many boys and girls 

 are enrolled for the examinations. 



The Catharine Howard Library. 



The Howard Library has acquired a cabinet for its growing collec- 

 tion of lantern slides. For this indispensable reference library with its 

 equipment for illustration and children's hours, the Museum is indeed 

 grateful to the Howard Library Association. It has helped in the purpose 

 of the year, to make this, through service, the best in the institution's 

 history. It is a pleasure to say that that purpose has been fulfilled. 



Dr. Dawson reports on the work of the Psychological Laboratory as 

 follows : 



A total of 341 children, youth, and adults of Springfield, have been 

 examined in the Psychological Laboratory during the current school 

 year. Most of these are pupils in the public schools, but many other 

 social agencies have been represented, — as Judge Heady's court, the 

 Union Relief, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 

 to Children, The Hampden County Children's Aid Society, The Good 

 Will Home, etc. The most notable development of the work during the 

 year has been in number of parents applying for examination of their 

 own children, and especially in the number of young men and women 

 making application through their school principals. Altogether, 103 have 

 applied for help in deciding problems of further education, vocational 

 guidance, etc., or 30% of the total number examined. Besides the local 

 cases examined, a considerable number not included in the above, and 

 representing various social service agencies, have come from neighbor- 

 ing towns all the way from Northampton to Thompsonville. Altogether, 

 approximately 400 cases have been examined. 



Respectfully submitted, 



GRACE P. JOHNSON, Director. 



