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...Chauncey twice turned down an offer to play baseball professionally with the Boston Braves in favor of teaching...
After graduating with a bachelor’s in psychology in 1928, Chauncey returned to Harvard the next year to serve as assistant dean of the Faculty and chair of the scholarship committee. He also coached the varsity football and baseball teams until the mid-1930s...
Unhappy with the exclusive nature of the College’s student body, University President James Bryant Conant appointed Chauncey to find a way to fairly assess the abilities of scholarship applicants. Chauncey suggested the Scholastic Aptitude Test, which had been developed five years earlier by a Princeton professor...
...became a requirement for scholarship applicants to the College in 1934, and a requirement for all applicants in 1941. Throughout the 1930s, Chauncey successfully persuaded other Ivy League schools to use multiple choice tests in choosing scholarship students...
...Carnegie Committee on Testing recommended that several educational councils be combined into one organization—which the next year became the Educational Testing Service, with Chauncey as president...