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Experimentation with admissions requirements designed to test the applicants' fitness for college as well as his secondary school training has been indulged in by various colleges during the last few years. No psychological or mental aptitude test yet involved however has proved entirely convincing to colleges like Harvard which have clung to the older admissions criteria...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADMISSIONS AND DISMISSALS | 11/27/1928 | See Source »

Actual work in college is undoubtedly the best test of a student's qualification to remain there. Insofar as their physical limitations will permit colleges would do well permit colleges would do well to follow the Law School in establishing admissions standards within rather than at the beginning of the Freshman year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADMISSIONS AND DISMISSALS | 11/27/1928 | See Source »

Item, lustre: for which there is neither test nor definition. It is the mellow glow emanating from an unblemished "skin," soft, warm, alive. If pearls are held between the eye and the light, some will show a translucent encircling band about one-fifth the width of their diameter. Such have the finer lustre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Superlatives Exhausted | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...University soccer team meets the highly-reputed Syracuse eleven at Syracuse this afternoon in a game which will test the Crimson defense on all points of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SOCCER MEN ENGAGE SYRACUSE ON NEW YORK FIELD | 11/17/1928 | See Source »

...will enter the lists, and boldly pick Yale, though there is every reason why Princeton should win. This is a great test of my power. If I win, there will be considerable justification in the word that is going the rounds that Joe Forecast's support is worth more than a good backfield. And here are the scores...

Author: By Joe Forecast, | Title: JOE FEELS A BIT FUSSED ABOUT ELI-TIGER WAGER | 11/17/1928 | See Source »

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