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...intelligence tests calculated to get at a student's mental content has spread with astonishing rapidity. Originated by the famous Frenchman. Binet, they were brought to this country by Dr. H. H. Goddard. Until the war, knowledge of them was chiefly confined to experimental psychologists. Then the famous Army Alpha tests were devised, and intelligence testing took on the appearance of a popular sport...
...Alpha Iota of Massachussetts, Harvard’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, nominates the 48 juniors with the highest GPAs...
Wealth will not pass beyond three generations," warns a Chinese proverb. Genes, the thinking goes, don't always carry the entrepreneurial DNA of an empire's founder to his descendants, who consistently dissipate the ancestral fortune. That quaint admonition must be weighing on the mind of Hong Kong--based alpha tycoon Li Ka-shing. Though he has given no indication that he is contemplating retirement, Asia's richest man (estimated net worth: $12.4 billion) is 75 years old. Which of his two sons--quiet, nose-to-the-grindstone Victor or sociable, creative Richard--will take over the family businesses...
Right on its heels, “Alpha Beta Gaga,” which on Talkie Walkie is a whimsical, whistling meander, became a driving, raving onslaught, riding on a crunching, insistent bass line that Bill Wyman would not have disowned...
That’s a fact that Kappa Alpha Theta President Megan G. Cameron ’05 readily acknowledges. “We need a facility,” she says. “It would enrich our organization...