...investigations into the value of drill in that subject. In two schools, each containing the usual eight grades, the use of the spelling book and home lessons in the subject were abandoned for a period of three years. At the same time the period which had been devoted to studying...

...investigation by Cornman,1 who gave a number of spelling tests in various schools and also got two schools to abandon the use of the spelling book and home lessons in the subject, and to omit the spelling period from the school programme for a period of three years in order to see...

...period was entirely eliminated from two schools in Philadelphia for a period of three years. He states: "It was decided to abandon the use of the spelling...the subject, to omit also the period from the school proSPELLING 3 95 gramme which had been devoted to its study and recitation and to investigate the effect...