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"Let us accept the child in our midst as our greatest wealth and our highest responsibility. Let us exalt him above industry, business, politics, and above all the petty selfish things that weaken and destroy a people. Let us know that the race goes forward through its children." These words were spoken over 50 years ago by Jane Addams, founder of Hull House and one of the mothers of Mary Crane Center. Edna Dean Baker, president of National College of Education, Evanston, is also credited with creating the Mary Crane Center because of her efforts to enable her students to understand through firsthand experience the effects of the variety of stresses the human family faces in our society.In 1907, Richard Teller Crane built the Mary Crane building in the original Hull House complex as a memorial to his wife, Mary Prentice Crane, and designated that it was to be used as a Day Nursery. When Hull House turned the Day Nursery over to the National College of Education in 1925, it became one of the country's first experiments in nursery school education. The Depression threatened the existence of the school until a group of women ...