Word: testing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...songs, written by J. Stanley Sheppard and Robert A. Gibson, underwent the acid test when several persons were heard whistling them during intermission. "The Mood to be Wooed" and "What Did You Do, Love" are potential Hit Parade material...
...glorious victory in the British Parliament, and it was a bitter day for those many Jews who had labored so that-as Zionist Dr. Chaim Weizmann once put it-"Palestine should be just as Jewish as America is American and England is English." Malcolm Macdonald had passed his test...
...examinations were designed with the cooperation of the faculties of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia and will test the student's general grasp of the principle subjects taught in a liberal arts college. These tests have recently been made open to Freshmen as well as Seniors. The student will receive a chart containing the results...
About 75 Freshmen have just completed the first step toward their Senior rank by passing the required eligibility test of the Red Cross Life-saving course conducted by coaches Peterson, Frank Vaughn, and Hal Ulen...
...worst has been said. Actually the exams are of the short-answer, check-and-underline variety. To the Senior who takes them, the Carnegie people will turn over a picture of his store of knowledge, telling how he stacks up mentally with his fellows. Admittedly the exams do not test "the ability to express ideas in writing, skill in laboratory techniques, research ability, and originality." Admittedly they are experimental even in the realm of pure knowledge. But nevertheless they were drawn up by professors from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, who can't all be wet. And for three seasons...