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...candidate, Nellie Davis, 44, of Paris, Ill. May and Nellie arrived at the same time. Unable to make up his mind, Judson permitted both to keep house and cook his meals for three weeks. One day he received a letter from Philip Bauer of Brooklyn. "I would like to correspond with the lady who may be the loser," said Philip, "I am 44 years of age and would be interested in a decent person. ..." This week Judson chose May, Nellie went home, Philip got neither. Reason: Philip was already married...
Significant was Dr. Thurstone's discovery that the work people like to do is likely to correspond with their particular mental abilities. One of his students who ranked high in verbal abilities planned to go into advertising and writing, while a student who scored high in perception but low in solving problems wanted to be an actor. Dr. Thurstone concluded that his findings not only made the general intelligence test obsolete but had two profound implications for education: 1) His tests will make it easier to find the occupation for which an individual is fitted...
That Editor Roosevelt misjudged the value of his story, Washington correspond ents agree. For what he was creating was not a minor job but an Assistant President of the United States, who would take over duties previously relegated to Louis Howe, Secretaries Early and Mclntyre, even James A. Farley, who dispenses less & less patronage as Son James dispenses more & more...
President Conant mentioned building. He expressed for graduates in Cambridge, which would correspond to the upperclass Houses, might prove a great step forward in giving to graduate students the same compactness which is at present an outstanding asset of the College. He evidently envisions some such buildings in the future, maybe soon, maybe not. Anyhow, soon or late, he admits that something must be done to relieve the unsatisfactory housing conditions of the graduate schools...
...Hart and others of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, it is a complex but small and neat layout of generators with movable stators, potentiometers, gears, cams, rectifiers, amplifiers, etc. Reduced to simplest terms, a series of potentiometers (low-resistance voltmeters) is set to correspond to the coefficients of the equations to be solved. A second series is geared together in the ratio of squares, cubes and higher powers. All the roots of an eighth-degree equation can be obtained in a half hour with a limit of error not greater than...