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...does not take supernatural intuition to detect him. He answers questions like a robot, not thinking for himself, but speaking words put into his mouth. He uses cliches like the "psychology of the business man"--Wolff's contribution to Economics A--until the grader, coming across it for the twentieth time, cannot help but see its origin. And cannot help but grade accordingly...
History I in a statement last night emphasized its policy of "discounting loose generalizations and vague formulae." In an attack on canned answers the statement said, "Pre-digested material, steadily recurring in a set of blue-books, is not difficult to detect, and a deliberate effort to deal with it will be made...
...greatest educational system in all history equip the American people to detect [these] ancient fallacies? . . . Why have so many educators been so easily persuaded to chase butterflies that will take all education as we have known it in America into oblivion? . . . To conclude . . . I think there is a basis for hope. . .. I think it is in the idea of noblesse oblige...
Directed by Professor Warren T. Powell, head of the university's student counselling department, the mechanism, all part of a college program evaluating psychological and other forms of standard tests, makes use of 750 "electric fingers" which detect the answers recorded on the answers sheet...
Though smart operators can make money by straight buying and selling of Government issues if they watch the market carefully, or by arbitrage if they can detect unwarranted price spreads between different issues, Sylvia Porter thinks the softest touch in the Government market is "free riding." When the Treasury invites subscriptions for a new issue, anyone can write himself down for a block by depositing 10% of the purchase price on the line, the balance payable on delivery. Because the Treasury takes care to make new issues attractive, they invariably command a premium over the par purchase price, thus anyone...