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...Plan demands more than a knowledge of facts; there is included in it a psychological test and a very satisfactory cultural examination. Upon the last examination the candidate was asked to condense a long paragraph into a few sentences, and questions appeared which would also test his general reading knowledge of literature. Upon the history examination was a question calling both for some knowledge of the past history of Europe, but also enabling the candidate to show what reading he had done upon very recent history. This sort of question is a good criterion of the general mental equipment...
...Plan is indeed comprehensive, and applied to everyone could be used to test more fairly and more completely a candidate's fitness for the advantages and the responsibilities of a college education at Harvard. DONALD H. WALLACE '24. W. WHITTEMORE...
...Harvard, he did give some of the requirements that such a plan would have to fulfill. The CRIMSON, however, proposed a plan, which the Harvard Debating Union discussed on Tuesday, deciding in favor of a higher scholastic standard, abolition of full entrance exams and inauguration of a general cultural test...
...repeated enrolment of dropped students without a second examination, by discouraging transfer students from other colleges, and, above all, by discontinuing fall entrance examinations, which are responsible, they maintained, for 75 percent of the Freshmen who go on probation. Further, they advocated an additional general examination designed to test the candidate's ability, potentiality, and breadth of culture instead of his acquisitive power...
...Freshman sextet added another to its string of one-sided victories yesterday afternoon at the Arena by routing the Cambridge Latin School combination 8 to 0. The schoolboys did not offer stubborn enough opposition to test the Crimson skaters on the defense, but there was a noticeable improvement on the attack...