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Coach Lewis has been putting his squad through strenuous workouts and test matches in preparing for tonight's opener. He expects to be able to put his best team on the mat tonight as no one has been injured during the practice sessions...
...short, he would make "service" as well as "brains" the basis of admission. As a supplement to existing examinations, he would test a student's capacity to "make the most of his opportunities" in the service of society. These phrases sound well, but it is significant that the practical details of such a test have not yet been given out by Doctor Graves...
...planned by the Wireless Club to keep the station in daily operation from 6 o'clock in the evening until 2 o'clock in the morning. In a test held last week the station was heard in California by ten different stations...
...were not bad enough to have one's intellect weighed, measured, and neatly pigeon holed at the hands of leering psychologists, two university professors have now undertaken to prove that one's poetic discrimination can be dissected and catalogued in the same way. The test, as set forth in the "New Republic" is simplicity itself. The student is shown a bit of verse by a reputable poet, who may be any one of a number ranging from Mother Goose to Carl Sandberg, and three artistically mutilated versions of the same. If he has a keen discrimination in poetry...
...test of this sort is undeniably interesting and always entertaining, but about all it proves in the testee is the extent of his education. Any person who has received a reasonably thorough drill in the fundamental qualities of good verse, according to the standards of his day, should perform creditably. The present generation, for example, has been trained to recognize the terseness and restraint that makes good free verse without destroying its poetic connotation. It can therefore assert with confidence that Carl Sandberg did not write such lines...