RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE MEDICAL SCIENCES- 95
search in child psychology, includes the training
of teachers, with special emphasis on child psychology;
the operation of a bureau for vocational
guidance; and the maintenance of a center of
educational information and propaganda. From
1925 to 1931 the institute was assisted by the
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial. In 1931
The Rockefeller Foundation took over the project
as one
of its unclassified activities, and
pledged aid on a tapering basis through the fiscal
year 1936-37. In 1934 the Foundation made a
supplementary grant of $5,000 to the institute to
compensate it for loss in exchange and to aid it
in meeting the deficit caused by decrease in local
contributions. In 1935 a grant of similar nature,
amounting to 37,200, was made for the fiscal
year 1935-36. These Foundation grants toward
the general budget of the institute represent aid
over a transitional period during which plans
are being developed for cooperation in a research
program coming within the Foundation'sfieldof
concentration in the medical sciences.
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Application of Modern Psychiatric Knowledge
The Foundation made appropriations during
1935 to three organizations in the United States
engaged in promoting the practical application
of modern psychiatric knowledge.
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