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...same size, closely resembling each other, ranked at 26 goals, were on hand to see and lend color to the summer's events. At Sands Point, and on the spacious turf overlooked by the stone terrace and colonial portico of Piping Rock Club (see map, p. 25), test matches between candidates for the U. S. team went on with much earnestness. People watching from cars parked along the sideboards were increasingly numerous and interested. The matches with England, to be played at Meadow Brook-climax not only of this season but of three years of polo preparation-were only...
...test matches that Long Islanders mean when, after lunch, they suggest "going over to see the polo." The actual team this year will not be picked until the night before the first game, but the men on it will be chosen from the "Red" and "White" teams which confront each other as tentative units, constantly rearranged. Thomas Hitchcock Jr., captain of the U. S. team and chairman of the Defense Committee, had made clear that he would not consider anyone as trying out for a specific position. His purpose in the test matches was to arrive at combinations that worked...
Next task for Headmaster Richards was to improve his teaching system. Announced last week was this unusual plan, test-proved last Spring: 1) Henceforth each academic schedule period will be divided into two 45-min. periods, the first for recitation, the second for supervised preparation of the next day's lesson. 2) Every fifth appointment period in each course will be devoted to review and research. Boys will prepare written reports on their work. 3) Realizing that there are more and less advantageous periods throughout the day, Headmaster Richards has arranged a daily "staggered, rotating schedule." For instance...
...days of fun preceded the test. The boys were shown through the Edison laboratories, shook hands with Henry Ford, Harvey Samuel Firestone, Lewis Perry (principal of Phillips Exeter Academy), Hubert S. Howe (Columbia neurologist), William Lowe Bryan (President of Indiana University). During this ceremony each boy was permitted to step up to a microphone and speak his name and State. There was a banquet at which they formally met last year's winner, Wilber Brotherton Huston of Olympia, Wash., M. I. T. sophomore. There was also a dance to which the Edisons invited 52 of New Jersey...
...days later the "extremely bright boys" filed into a room in the Edison plant, sat down at broad desks, began frowning and screwing up their mouths over the questionnaires. Sophomore Huston looked over the test, appraised it as no harder than last year's, promised to try his hand at it later, settled down to read a tabloid newspaper...