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Examinations to test knowledge of French, German, and Latin in fulfillment of language requirements for undergraduates will be held today from 2 o'clock...
With daring circumspection officials probed the cake, which obstinately refused to explode. Clearly, then, it must be poisoned. Obviously, too, the only assured test of poisoned cake lay in the eating...
Were the ancestors of Chicago's present schoolchildren a stupid lot? Or have teaching methods and teachers vastly improved in 50 years? These are the comparative results, announced a fortnight ago, of an arithmetic test taken by pupils in Chicago schools 50 years ago and given again last year...
...Garden Hose" At Fort Tilden (near Manhattan) anti-aircraft gunners prepared to test a new "sightless" 50-caliber Browning anti-aircraft machine gun. Instead of aiming and firing at the target by the aid of sights, a gunner firing the new weapon simply turns it like a garden hose upon aircraft overhead and sprays them with a stream of 450 bullets per minute, every fifth bullet being a flaming "tracer bullet" which indicates...
Laymen held it to be significant that although all of the students tested appeared to finish in good condition, several had for a long time been in the habit of sleeping nightly for only six hours or less. One, Mr. Monroe, who remained awake for 80 hours almost without sign of fatigue, is an individual of such exceptional intelligence that he may well be called supernormal. He passed the Army Alpha test with a score of 196, a mark reached by only one-fifth of one per cent of college students...