Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Supporting Inspector McWade's story was a memorandum by the late Lt.-Col. V. C. Richmond, who was killed in the crash, filed last July after an unimpressive test flight of the R-IOI. Lt.-Col. Richmond found the hydrogen bags fouled against nuts and bolts at hundreds of points; that padding was ineffective; that the loss of lifting power was about one ton per square inch of hole in twelve hours?"an alarming condition. . . . Until this matter is taken in hand, we cannot recommend any extension of the flying permit...
...Harvard debating teams will leave Cambridge this weekend to test their strength in the first matches of the season. R. M. Alt '32 and P. H. Colien '32 journey to Newark, New Jersey, today to participate in a split debate with a New Jersey Law School team. The Harvard debaters and the lawyers will pair off in discussing the question: "Resolved. That the United States should recognize Soviet Russia...
...remains to me and all that from this date I may acquire to increase my inheritance. I, who once sang idly of ancient palaces and sumptuous villas; I have come to close my life in science in this peasant's house, not so much to humble myself as to test my own powers of creation and transfiguration...
...system of admission to college is unsatisfactory. The recent report of the Commission on English, which is to be followed in a few weeks by a more detailed study, lends new weight to this contention. Although incomplete at the moment, the analysis has found that both the Scholastic Aptitude Test and the Comprehensive Examinations are more valuable indices of a student's calibre than the Old Plan...
...same token the Scholastic Aptitude Test offers far better criteria on a man's capacity than the New Plan. This is probably of more significance than the first point, for it indicates that the intelligence of a student can better be judged by a mental test than by a carefully prepared examination on the subjects that are drilled into him by secondary schools...