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Word: charting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...helping young men find themselves, to be answered by sympathetic human contact rather than by statistical analysis. There can be no single method and no sure-five system. The committee is strongly opposed to any idea of routine measurement of capacity or pigeon-holing of personality by any chart system whatsoever. Intelligence tests should be taken as indicating perhaps the possession of capacity but never the lack of it. Records of grades and activities should only supplement opinions formed by personal contact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOCATIONS GUIDE OUTLINED IN NEW COUNCIL REPORT | 5/29/1929 | See Source »

Married. Charles Stewart Mott, 54, of Flint, Mich., vice president of General Motors Corp., three times Mayor of Flint, twice a widower; and Mrs. Dee Van Balkon Fuery, 29, of Detroit, Sumatra-born, Paris-educated editor of Bridle and Golfer, Detroit smart-chart; in Toledo, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Well known to all who enter college or preparatory school are the blank forms to be filled in with name, address, name of parents, etc., etc. But at The Hill new questions are asked, a new sort of chart is being kept. Searching and revealing, it justifies Headmaster Wendell's advice to the parents of the twelve who will not go to college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: To College? | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Student answers are filed on a chart to which is later added information in re their curricular and extracurricular activities, their activities and interests during the summer. Interviews with professors about work or ambitions are also noted, and the subsequent results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: To College? | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Each boy's chart becomes a minute cumulative biography, recording calendar years instead of only school years. Tiny tragedies, failures, successes are noted by terse, keen recording angels with a flair for cross-reference. Tendencies lurking secretly behind chance acts are revealed. The Hill is thus gently turning to scrupulous study of the individual boy. It can advise and knows how best to phrase its advice. It knows too when certain students for one or another reason will find only unhappiness or failure in the looming college years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: To College? | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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