Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edwin M. Davidson '45, of Adams House and New York, was the highest scorer among Harvard students taking the United States Armed Forces Institute examinations given late last month, Assistant Dean Henry S. Dyer '28 announced yesterday...
...reporting the winners Dean Dyer said that all top scores were comfortably above the 99th percentile of the sample of college students throughout the country on whom the tests were originally standardized...
Individual reports, and with each report a memorandum explaining how scores are to be interpreted, will be in the mall in a few days, said Dean Dyer, The memorandum confirms a previously-published report that the Harvard group attained score averages placing it between the 75th and 80th percentiles...
...students are unable to take the entire series of tests, Assistant Dean Henry S. Dyer '28, who is directing the examinations, said that he hopes that such students will take as much of the series as they can fit into their schedules...
Need for mechanical aid in the Records Office was first apparent during the winter of 1942-1943. When the flow of students into the armed forces began and University enrollment became an unstable quantity. That was when Dyer began to experiment with borrowed machines. By the end of 1943, Harvard was fully mechanized...