Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hundreds of Freshmen who chewed their electrographic pencils over the Kuder Preference Record in December will get a scientific analysis of their likes and dislikes next week when individual results are distributed, but Henry S. Dyer '27, director of the Office of Tests, cautioned students against taking the report "too seriously...
...explanatory letter which will be distributed with the individual results, Dyer emphasizes that this "is simply a device for helping you make a detailed analysis of your own likes and dislikes for various types of work activities...
Although never administered to such a large group here previously, the Kuder record has aided Dyer's office with individual cases for some time. In most instances, Dyer relates, the results have proved useful, but occasional "problem boys" who register no likes or dislikes at all are hard to advise...
...first time to a large body of students for purely experimental purposes, and its results will be examined for possible bearing on the fields of concentration chosen by incoming men. Stressing the danger that its results may be overestimated by the freshmen who took it, Henry S. Dyer '27, Director of the Office of Tests, pointed out that the test was given primarily to obtain data for future work, and that its importance to the individual student is only incidental at this time. Rusults of the test will be sent out early in January...
...sale last week in limited editions. A new company called Concert Hall Society, Inc. announced that it would turn out only 2,000 copies of its albums. For $105, Concert Hall promised twelve albums of previously unrecorded music by Henry Purcell, Beethoven (Scottish Songs, sung by Balladeer Richard Dyer-Bennet), Brahms, Stravinsky, Béla Bartók and others...