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Professor Killam will continue his teaching in Architectural Construction, Mr. H. A. Frost in Graphics, Messrs. H. B. Warren and H. D. Murphy in Free-hand Drawing, and Mr. John Wilson in Modelling. Mr. Kenneth Conant will assist in the courses in the History of Architecture taking complete charge of the drawing in these courses, and grounding the men in the vocabulary of Architecture, in connection with the historical development of the styles...
...fund was established a month ago by President Conant, in connection with the international celebration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of Harvard next September...
Prof. J. B. Conant, 10-12, 2-4, Boyl...
DIED. HENRY CHAUNCEY, 97, founder of the Educational Testing Service who engineered the rise of standardized testing in college admissions; in Shelburne, Vt. As assistant dean at Harvard in the 1930s, he objected to the elitist system that admitted only prep-school students. With Harvard president James Bryant Conant, he promoted the meritocratic but previously little-used SAT, now taken by 2 million students a year...
...Although Conant and Chauncey intended to use the SAT as a tool to further democratize American education, the test has been criticized for being racially biased and a poor predictor of college performance. The advent of expensive SAT tutors and preparation courses has led many educators to question whether success on the test is reserved for the wealthy...