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...will be conducted this year as in former years. The fact that Smith Halls are not entirely occupied by Freshmen will not obstruct the usual contests. Standish and Gore will be two contestants, and all Freshmen living in the Yard, in Smith Halls, or elsewhere, will form a third group...
Psychological tests had to be selected which could be given to literates as well as illiterates, which could be used in group examination, and which could be easily scored. About two million officers and enlisted men were examined, and of these five-tenths percent were recommended for rejection or discharge, and one and two-tenths percent for service organizations and development battalions. Many of these men would have been detected by general observation in the course of time, but the tests furnished objective data at once upon which to base an opinion. They also obviated the necessity of judging...
President Lowell will be one of a group of prominent men who are to tour the country during the month of February and speak in behalf of a league of nations at a series of congresses held in large cities. Ex-President William H. Taft will preside at each congress; others in the party are James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, Henry Van Dyke, ex-minister to The Netherlands, Frank P. Walsh, former joint chairman of the National War Labor Board,. Mrs. Phillip North Moore, president of the National Council of Women, and Rabbi Wise of the Free Synagogue...
Previous to this meeting, W. H. Shiner '18 will lead the first conference of a discussion group devoted to social welfare in the Noble Room at 7 o'clock. Mr. Shiner was for some time a Y. M. C. A. service as a secretary at Bumkin Island. The group will follow the methods pursued by last year's groups but will consider more especially welfare problems...
...Harvard College were constructed their makers had in mind, above all else, the fact that in elections and in other class activities each undergraduate should be able to not only have a vote, but also a voice. Their aim was to avoid the possibility of the suppression by any group of any candidates for office who were desired by a considerable portion of a class and to insure the election of men representative of the entire class. In order to accomplish this, especially in the Senior class, the method of nomination by petition was established, to supplement the work...