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Soon Selina has a chance to test what he says. For her father dies- he is, though she has never known it, a professional gambler-killed by a bullet that was intended for someone else. He leaves her two blue-white diamonds and an envelope containing...
...inclusive plan of admission favored by Assistant Professor Bancroft Beatley appears to have certain advantages. The much-advertised "intelligence tests," now in use at Columbia and other universities would give each candidate a rating as to native capacity or "mental efficiency." The School record would indicate past performance. The New Plan examinations would test his specific knowledge of four basic subjects. Quite ideal...
...necessary, however, to examine each kind of examination with care. The "mental efficiency" tests were first used extensively during the War, when it was found that when applied to large numbers of individuals, these tests gave the results which might have been expected. That is to say the average rating of the officers was higher than the average rating of the enlisted men, the while soldiers averaged higher than negro soldiers and so on. But it was never demonstrated and rarely asserted that in any individual case, the "intelligence test" gave a true index to mental ability. In the long...
...Plan examinations. The fact is that these really are unusually comprehensive--and if they were made still more comprehensive, admission could justly be decided by them alone. Questions requiring originality and clear thinking, rather than mere congeries of remembered facts serve the same purpose as the "intelligence tests," and serve it more faithfully for individual cases. And the results of such examinations indicate the capacity of the candidate at the time which after all, is the important thing rather than his capacity in the first form or at any other more or less remote period. In any case, the Committee...
...clock today in the fencing room of the Hemenway Gymnasium, a Freshman fencing team will cross swords with an opponent in an official match. On account of the disbanding of the Northeastern team which was to meet the Freshmen, the second University team will step in to test the yearlings' mettle...