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...honors degrees who still wishes to examine a portion of his field more closely will simply devote part of his final year to research under the guidance of his tutor. He needs no pass vised by authority to put him across this line of concentration. His thesis, his oral test prove his worth as a scholar; his general written examination, his knowledge of his field as a whole...
...split-pea industry was seriously threatened by importations from China. A Port Huron, Mich., witness extolled the power-producing qualities of U. S.. split-pea soup. In a test, he said, cross-country runners were fed for 16 days on split-pea soup and they got 65 miles to the gallon...
...they found that sulphuric or hydrochloric acid would best dissolve the elements of the sputum undesirable in isolating the tuberculosis bacteria, that crystal violet dye best brought out the shape of the germs, that they flourished best on a chunk of potato. Now practically every tuberculosis hunter uses their test...
...four chosen out of 400 applicants for admission to the Moscow Art Theatre Musical Studio. Morris Gest brought her to the U. S. in the Moscow Art play, Carmencita and Her Soldier; when it was booked in Los Angeles she took a screen test. In California she played the role of the nun in the road company of The Miracle. She was in Forgotten Faces, The Street of Sin. Emil Jannings likes...
...thought and selection on the part of the writer. Assuredly an examiner should demand facts in the answers to his questions; but this does not mean that facts must come tumbling out of the writer like nickels from an opened slot machine. The examiner should rather seek to test not only knowledge, but also the student's selective ability in using that knowledge to support his own reactions. This in turn demands time. In other words a short examination, calling for as much reflection and marshaling of material as actual writing, is greatly to be preferred to a long, elaborately...