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...final fillip to the campaign was the discovery by Dickinson supporters that the University of Iowa had sent to 20,000 high-school pupils throughout the State an intelligence test which included for grammatical correction the following sentence...
German Shepherd fanciers are annoyed when the breed is referred to as "police dogs." "P. D." is a degree conferred on Shepherds only after they have passed a field test of 24 exercises, including food offered by strangers, capture of a person pretending to be a criminal...
With characteristic Carter thoroughness he will drill a great circle of test holes about the cemetery, gradually work toward the centre. If the drills bring up interesting material, excavations will begin...
These suggestions are not especially novel, if we consider their bearing upon present, methods of admission to college and organization of the first-year curriculum. I am not concerned with the detailed requirements in any subject field nor would I ascribe superior value to any particular type of test or entrance examination. We need the evidence of the essay type as well as that of the more recent objective test. It takes more than one instrument to ascertain not only what a candidate knows and what mental capacity he has, but also to what extent he will use his knowledge...
...student assimilates during the years before the four year-oral examination. It means inculcating into the undergraduate the realization that he is the only one profiting or losing, that he is pursuing culture rather than sixteen credits. Finally, it does offer him a fairer opportunity and a more comprehensive test to display his qualities to the examining board. It involves the departure of the written examinations and the course as an end instead of a means; it offers education instead of mechanical sheepskins...