At 10 o'clock today a group of 12 educators from Brazil will come to Harvard as a part of a brief survey of American educational systems which they are undertaking under the auspices of the Institute of International Education, of New York. They will stay in Boston until Saturday noon and during their sojourn will make a study of educational methods in force in the metropolitan district. The plan of their work here has been organized by G. K. Martin '32 in cooperation with H. E. Wilson, secretary to the Graduate School of Education, and the Phillips Brooks House Associates.
The delegates who are led by Dr. Carlos Delgado de Carvelho, will spend today at Harvard. The program of their visit included an inspection of Widener Library and Fogg Art Museum. After a luncheon in the Faculty Room at the Union they will interview Dean Holmes of the School of Education and later in the afternoon they will observe-the research work done in connection with Growth Study being pursued at Palfrey House. At 4 o'clock they will attend the fourth Godkin Lecture and following this will take tea in Lawrence Hall.
On Friday the delegation will be treated in groups according to their field or research. Visits to the vocational schools in the vicinity of Boston have been arranged by the School of Education for those interested particularly in vocational guidance studies. Some of the visitors and making a detailed study of the methods of health education and a tour of elementary and secondary schools employing recently developed systems will be made under the direction of G. K. Makechnie, of the School of Education. The Sargent School of Physical Education will be included in the survey by these delegates. A brief study of methods used in secondary schools in the vicinity of Boston will be made under the guidance of H. C. Seymour 1G by visits to F. A. Day Junior High School, Newton, the Newton High School, the Brookline High School, and others. A series of conferences with the administrators of Harvard, M. I. T., Wellesley, and Boston College have been arranged for two members of the delegation who are making a study of university organization. Among those whom the latter visitors will interview are President Lowell, Dean Hanford, and the Presidents of M. I. T., and Wellesley, Martin will conduct these delegates on their tour.
The entire delegation, with the exception of those members who are to visit Wellesley will be entertained at tea in the Phillips Brooks House Friday afternoon.
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