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...students of George Washington University, faced yesterday a new kind of examination. They number 1200, and the test which has been given them is one designed by Professor Moss with a view to securing evidence as to which students are good mixers, and which will "get along in the world...
...social intelligence test", as it has been named, has already been tried out in several thousand cases involving the selection of policemen. This is the first time that it has been applied to college students, and Professor Moss hopes that the results will add to the faculty's knowledge of the individual student. The professors will know at once which students have qualities leading to popularity and success...
...test consists of a problem in sizing up a series of social situations, with a view to ascertaining the ability of the student to meet similar problems in life...
Play began. After the conventional eliminations of the first and second rounds, Williams crushed Borotra, and William Johnston, not without dust and heat, defeated Manuel Alonzo, the Flower of Spain. In that round Wallace Johnson came to his first test. He was bracketed against James Anderson, Captain of the Australian Davis Cup Team...
...solemn and magnificent music bore any relation to its maneuvers. Suddenly it banked, began to plunge down. An officer on Mitchell Field watched it descend. This machine, a 1,400 horsepower Curtiss racer, with a wingspan of only 22 feet, had been sent up for its first official speed test. Its manufacturers believed that it could travel 255 miles an hour. In it Lieut. Alford J. Williams had on an ancient shirt, greased with the smuts of innumerable flights ? a good luck shirt. If he had good luck in it this time, he would fly that plane...