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...comprehensible. In The Concepts of Over-and Under achievement, Psychologist Robert L. Thorndike, also of Teachers College, writes: "In the study of discrepancies between actual and predicted achievement, we are dealing with a set of discrepancies between actual final achievement and the level of achievement that would have been fore cast on the basis of the known relation ship between final achievement and some measure of aptitude or of initial achievement, or some combination of measures of both." Whew. Actually, the point is that "scientific" testmakers can not yet measure the human variables that affect academic success in school...
This week the government presented an ambitious program of social and economic reform to the National Assembly, and the perennial question of how to pay for it once again came to the fore. Of course, De Gaulle could always imitate the Anglo-Saxons and send tax evaders to jail. But then how would he raise the revenue to build all those new prisons...
...film centers around the problem of alcoholism, but this topic, once brought to the fore, is subject to more manhandling than any other. Beyond a certain point, the story is finally and irrevocably lost, and the movie becomes a dreary plug for the Alcoholics Anonymous, with numbered lessons, scraps of psychology, and frequent slogans. "At first it will be hell, but you can do it." "Your wife will want you to drink along with her; she'll resent your staying sober." "Listen--for twelve years I was drunk, and for fourteen years I've been sober. It's two different...
...first the hogs were outraged. They could eat standing up for only a minute before their ham muscles weakened and let them down. It took several weeks be fore they were used to the new feeding system and their ham muscles were strong enough to support them. Professor Heitman watched their hungry struggles fondly, noting how their rear ends wiggled as they reached for their food. "I felt," he says, "that I was looking at very much heavier hams...
Square and scholarly-looking. Bishop Burgess, 53. was elected on solid qualifications. He did advanced study in sociology at the University of Michigan be fore graduating from the Episcopal Theo logical School at Cambridge, Mass., in 1934. After his ordination, he served a clerical apprenticeship at churches in Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. In 1946 he was called to the chaplaincy of Washing ton's Howard University, and five years later became a canon of Washington Cathedral. Until his consecration, Burgess was Archdeacon of Boston and supervisor of the Episcopal City Mission. Burgess was chosen for the suffragan bishopric over...