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There is a possibility that a test case, if rushed, can be gotten through the Mexican Supreme Court by next May or June. The immediate effect of cancellation of permits was to throw some 3,000 Mexican laborers who had operated the wells out of work. The Mexican Government appeared disposed to wait until the Mexican Supreme Court had ruled before taking action to alleviate the situation...
...change, the Scholastic Aptitude Test, already has gone into effect, and will be required of each final candidate for admission to the Freshman class...
...intended," Professor Corwin says, "that this test shall supercede any of the present means of judging preparedness for college work. Its use will be tentative at first, and until experience has shown its proper function: How much and what aid it will give to the examiner is still problematical...
...handicap which has faced the universities in their effort to institute honors courses and tutorial systems, to leave more to the individual effort and research of the undergraduate and less to the traditional lecture and test system has been the lack of proper training on the part of the preparatory school. The incoming Freshman arrives armed with the requisite number of facts but with a mind whose development has been retarded by the herding which it has undergone continuously from childhood. The mental processes work only in a crowd or with the crowd. Knowledge means nothing unless it is translated...
Coach E. L. Farrell expects to send a large squad to New York for the second test of the season. His charges have been entered in the one mile relay, in the dashes, the pole vault, and the 1000-yard run. The Columbia racers, slated to clash with the Crimson in the feature one-mile relay, were withdrawn, and the University of Maryland has elected to clash with the University of Virginia and Harvard in this event. The Virginia quartet is exceptionally fast. Plans are still in the air as to who will leave the marks for the University...