Abstract
The experiment here reported was performed by a group of sixteen adult women?Seniors in the college department?to de termine whether systematic practice in rapid silent reading, dis tributed over a period of several months, would materially affect the regular rate of reading. The experiment was carried on during the months of March, April, and May, 1926, with three forty minute practice periods per week. Tests, given at the beginning, middle, and end of the experiment, consisted of selections from Emerson's essay, Eloquence, and the Thorndike-McCall Read ing Scale. Speed was determined by averaging two two-minute readings from Eloquence. Comprehension was tested by two methods, the first of which was an adaptation of the Thorndike McCall scale.
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