RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

94 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
year beginning October 1, 1935. Of this sum,
?7,500 is to be paid unconditionally and the
balance on a basis of one dollar for every dollar
over 320,000 secured from other sources. This appropriation
is the Foundation's second grant of
the same amount toward the support of the
project.
Psychiatrists and district workers connected
with the project maintain an intimate and
friendly relationship with the young people of
the area, a method of approach which is producing
interesting results. The
psychiatrist is afforded
exceptional opportunity for studying
delinquency in close and familiar association
with a social group in which it occurs.
Institute of the Educational Sciences
Geneva, Switzerland
Research in Child Psychology
One of the chief functions of the Institute of
the Educational Sciences, the former Jean Jacques
Rousseau Institute, is research in child
psychology, including the study of the normal
and the diseased mind. Certain aspects of its
investigative work are therefore within the scope
of the Foundation's program in psychiatry.
For ten years the institute has received aid
from Rockefeller boards toward the support of
its general program, which, in addition to re-
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