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...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...
...Best test of a good idea is performance; strongest acknowledgment, imitation. Next month will end a year's performance by Tower Magazines (Illustrated Love, Illustrated Detective, Home, New Movie), published solely for sale in the F. W. Woolworth Co. chain stores-a strategic play for the concentrated women-shopper circulation (TIME. Aug. 19, 1929). Last fortnight saw the appearance of two similar magazines on the counters of S. S. Kresge and S. H. Kress chain stores-testimonials to the idea that a million women who never patronize a newsstand will buy 10? love-fiction, mystery, Hollywood chatter every month...
...about being an actress. Her father had done some lighting work for a studio in Astoria and knew somebody who promised to do what he could for Anita. Her first screen name was Anita Rivers. After the company she signed with had disbanded in California she took a screen test for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which was successful. The company thought Anita Page sounded better. Now her father, mother and little brother live with her. She goes to bed early...
Surgical Threads. Manufacturers of braided silk and catgut used in sewing up wounds heretofore have tested their threads five or six days to detect any latent germs. Henceforth, to satisfy fellows of the College of Surgeons, surgical threads must undergo 13 days' test-this the suggestion of Dr. Frank Lamont Meleney, Manhattan...