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Macy's "training school" consists in a course of sprints through which new personnel ambitious for executive jobs are put. Prerequisites for a tryout are a college degree or at least three years in college, also a special psychological test. Past experience is taken into account as well as the impression the candidate makes when personally interviewed. For the young men & women who enter the "school" Macy's provides much actual experience as salesmen and floorwalkers, also lectures on merchandising and bookkeeping...
...seating of the University crew, shaken together only two days before the regatta last Saturday after two weeks of being juggled about, at least proved to have possibilities. Coach Whiteside evidently hopes these may be brought out better in the four mile endurance test than in the very high-stroked, fast-rowed race which was put on by Syracuse and Cornell last week...
...from Buffalo one day last week went Harvey Ogden, crack test pilot for Curtiss Airplane & Motor Co. in an experimental observation plane Curtiss had built for the Army. He was to "fly its wings off" if he could. At 15,000 ft. he did. As the ship started boring earthward Pilot Ogden jumped, pulled his parachute ripcord. A flailing wing slashed the 'chute shrouds, Pilot Ogden plummeted to earth. The billowing 'chute drifted lazily in the wind, fluttered to earth an hour later, miles from where the body struck...
...Foundation gave to several thousand college seniors a twelve-hour, two-day test on a series of 3,400 items drawn from subjects taught in a liberal arts college. Only the 4,500 students who subsequently were graduated were considered. In 1930 another test was prepared for sophomores, more comprehensive, designed to measure such knowledge as might be expected to increase from year to year. In some colleges this test was given to all four classes...
...peak of literary knowledge," reported Carnegie, "both of words and of books, is apparently reached in the freshman year; 53% of the college seniors tested in English literature and vocabulary stood lower than the median freshman. . . . Mathematics exhibits a consistent backward movement. . . . The sophomore group has the advantage in the intelligence scores. ... In general science 39% of the freshmen did better than the median senior; in foreign literature about 24%; in fine arts 36%; in general history 38%. In the test as a whole 30% of the seniors were below the freshman median, while about the same proportion of freshmen...