Word: hollingsworth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Duerr '20; Cadet 2d Lieut, J. C. Harris '17; Cadet Sergts., C. R. Cabot '17, C. J. North uGB, A. L. Putnam '20, N. Teele '20; Cadet Corpls., F. B. Bradley '20, N. C. Burhans 1GB, L. Crosscup '19, P. B. Patton 1L, J. J. Healy '20, L. G. Hollingsworth '20, F. O. Magie '18, J. T. Rogers...
President Lowell's investigation into the records of students in the professional schools of Law and Medicine show an amazingly close correspondence between distinctions gained in college and those later attained in the professional schools. Professor Hollingsworth's recent book on "Vocational Psychology" summarizes some interesting data obtained by other investigators. One of these, Nicholson, took the records of 1,667 graduates of Wesleyan University and arranged them in three groups as follows: 140 men who were valedictorians or salutatorians of their classes, 461 men who were members of Phi Beta Kappa and the remaining 1,066 who had attained...
Professor Hollingsworth closes his chapter on the "Curriculum a Vocational Test" with the following significant remarks. "On the whole, then, all these studies point in a consistent direction; those who are destined to achieve distinction do so at an early age. Whether measured by achievement in academic courses, honors in professional and technical courses, salary earned after graduation, or inclusion among lists and directories of eminent men, success in later life is suggested by the early work of the school curriculum. In spite of frequent comments to the contrary, the school curriculum would seem to constitute a most useful test...