Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Wells, who had a part in making out the famous Alpha test for the draft during the last war, the Army plans to use an entirely now system in the present mobilization. The Alpha, or "horse-feathers", test was for literate men and endeavored to determine their general mental ability by such problems as completion of arithmetical progressions, analogies between words, and recognition of synonyms and antonyms...
According to Dr. Wells the Alpha test was "the first organized attempt at measuring mass mental alertness." This sort of test has now been abandoned by the Army, for among other things "it should be applied only to the upper fourth of the population...
Such questions were part of Army's new General Classification Test, streamlined lineal descendant of the World War I "Alpha" test, intended to help weed out hopeless misfits, keep pastry cooks from being assigned to blacksmithing duties or vice versa, bring to light bright boys who might make good officers...
Four Harvard men were among the group of ten Tufts College Medical seniors initiated last night as charter members of Alpha Omega Alpha, national medical honor society, at simple exercises held in Crane Chapel, on the Medford campus...
Forty members of the Zeta Alpha Society of Wellesley College are to be entertained by the Pierian Sodality next Monday afternoon in the rooms on the third floor of the north entry of Matthews...