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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tests on prospective army and navy aviators. The work, which will be under the direction of Dr. E. H. Burtt, of the psychology staff of the University, will be carried on in connection with the United States Aviation Corps, and will have as its main object the establishment of data upon which to base future examinations...
...they would respond. If a committee of grain experts, under Government auspices, should use their wonderful machinery for collecting information, they could probably in a short time find out the existing stocks of grain and flour and the probable future demands for various purposes at various prices. With these data, they could perhaps estimate the prices needed to bring supply and demand together. Such estimated prices might tell the truth better than the present prices in a demoralized market are doing. Such a report might clear the air. We should stop the use of grain for whiskey and beer during...
dent Lowell was a member. Professor Munro is now chairman of a Massachusetts commission which is to gather and collect data for the coming constitutional convention. In this general class the new Tariff Commission belongs. But it differs from all previous bodies of this sort in that it is not temporary, but permanent. Its duty is not to make inquiries with reference to a single projected piece of legislation, but to keep Congress continuously informed concerning laws which are expected to occupy its attention for many years to come Hence the Commission is appointed for a long period of time...
...editorial competition consists of writing editorials of timely interest to the University, of gathering data for editorials and items from other papers and magazines suitable for publication in the "comment" column on the editorial page. All the competitions will last approximately 12 weeks and no work will be required during the spring recess...
President Lowell's investigation into the records of students in the professional schools of Law and Medicine show an amazingly close correspondence between distinctions gained in college and those later attained in the professional schools. Professor Hollingsworth's recent book on "Vocational Psychology" summarizes some interesting data obtained by other investigators. One of these, Nicholson, took the records of 1,667 graduates of Wesleyan University and arranged them in three groups as follows: 140 men who were valedictorians or salutatorians of their classes, 461 men who were members of Phi Beta Kappa and the remaining 1,066 who had attained...