Foreword 



Since the departure of Professor Melvin E. Haggerty no 

 permanent director of the Bureau of Cooperative Research 

 has been appointed, but the Dean of the School of Education 

 has in the meantime had general supervision of the work of 

 the Bureau. W. S. Gray, Dean of the College of Education 

 in Chicago University, and author of the Gray Oral and Silent 

 Reading Tests, prepared the interpretation of the data and 

 the conclusions and recommendations contained in this publi- 

 cation. ]Mrs. Cecile White Fleming and Mr. W. E. Uphaus 

 assisted in the organization and tabulation of the data. 



H. L. Smith, 

 Dean of the School of Education. 



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