Object Details
- Description
- Arthur I. Gates (1890-1972) obtained his Bachelor of Law (1914) and his M.A. (1915) from the University of California at Berkeley and his PhD. from Columbia University (1917). He spent the rest of his career on the faculty of Teachers College at Columbia, putting special emphasis on the study of reading and language arts. Teachers College published his tests. Gates not only was the author of reading tests at several levels but of textbooks and basal readers. This manual refers to practice exercises in reading developed by Gates in conjunction with the Illinois-born Barnard College graduate (1926) and writer Celeste Comegys Peardon (1898-1988). The directions were published in 1933. Gates, Peardon, and other authors would collaborate on an extensive series of readers published by Macmillan in 1939 that came to be known as the Macmillan Readers.
- Compare 1990.0034.074, 1990.0034.075, 1990.0034.076, 1990.0034.077, 1990.0034.078, 1990.0034.079, 1990.0034.092, and 1990.0034.093.
- References:
- American Psychological Association, 1962 Directory, ed. James Q. Holsopple, Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1962, p. 244.
- “Celeste Comegrys Weds T. P. Pearson,” New York Times, June 5, 1926, p. 21.
- “Deaths,” New York Times, January 23, 1989, p. D11. The notice reports that Peardon died December 29, 1988.
- MacGinitie, Walter, “The Contribution of Arthur I. Gates,” Conference of the International Reading Association, St. Louis, 1981. This is online at a site known as yumpu.com, accessed April 20, 2020.
- “The Work-Play Readers”, review by C.T. Gray, The Elementary School Journal, 1940, 40 #8, pp. 635-637.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- author
- Peardon, Celeste Comegys
- Gates, A. I.
- maker
- Columbia University. Teachers College
- date made
- 1933
- Credit Line
- Gift of Samuel Kavruck
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/32 in x 15.3 cm x 23 cm; .254 cm x 6 1/32 in x 9 1/16 in
- Object Name
- Pamphlet
