Word: test
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Sixty-six prospective lawyers will take legal aptitude tests in the Langdell Hall Courtroom this morning. The six hour examination, which will attempt to determine the candidates' innate legal ability, is similar to the College Board aptitude test used to screen College applicants...
Proponents of U.M.S. feel that deferring men for school would create an elite in the colleges, and that there would be a race for grades which could destroy college life. They also attack any national test to decide who serves and who goes to school; it would, they say, merely discriminate against those who have poor backgrounds rather than actually measure intelligence. And only men who can afford college and get admitted to one would be deferred...
...persuade many men to take their service before college to avoid the trouble the new regulations entail. By writing in the amendments, the Committee hopes to end the objection that there will be discrimination in favor of the man with good education and background, men who can pass the test with a high score...
Another deferment proposal was recently put out by a committee of the American Council on Education which asked for a national test, but one with a lower "cutting" score, (110 as opposed to 120.) It also asked that men be taken on the basis of nationally determined state quotas...
They strongly dislike the Trytten or any deferments plan for several reasons. They feel that the test system would produce an "intellectual elite" in the colleges, and thus is undemocratic. And, of course, the test itself is not so much one of intelligence as it is of education and background. Thus, some groups would definitely be discriminated against--Negroes, low income groups, people in backward rural areas...