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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regular season of the Musical Clubs begins next Monday with the calling out of candidates for the mandolin, Banjo, and Glee Clubs. Owing to the fact that the University Glee Club has severed its connection with the Musical Clubs, the latter have been re-organized; and a new Glee Club has been formed which will sing the old Harvard football songs and certain college medleys. The Musical Clubs expect to have the usual dual concerts with Princeton and Yale before the University football games; and several trips are being arranged for the coming year...
...majority of the students entering Columbia this fall elected the new psychological tests for admission rather than the former system of taking written examinations. The tests, devised by Professor E. L. Thorndyke, formerly in charge of the psychological and mental tests in the United States Army, are composed of a series of thirty sets...
Applicants for admission by the new method are required to file a statement giving full information about themselves and their courses of study. They also state what they are interested in as regards activities outside of school as well as during school hours. In addition the applicants are required to file health certificates which are the result of a medical examination. Provided that they can file a complete school record, showing that they have completed satisfactorily the full requirements for admission to college, and that they have graduated from an acceptable secondary school, and can show a letter of recommendation...
...tests as given yesterday at Columbia took two hours and fifty minutes, including a ten-minute period for practice with the new style of examination. An examiner, with a stop watch, presided over each group of forty or fifty. The test was divided into four parts. Each student was given at first two sharp pencils and a printed pamphlet of questions. The examiner took his stand and at a set time said "Go." Each question, or puzzle, or test--and there were hundreds of them given each person--had to be finished by the second hand and the candidate...
...new Faculty lunch room which has been established in the Trophy Room of the Union presents a striking resemblance to the High Table of English universities and some American schools. For the past few years, the Colonial Club has been the only place where members of the Faculty could dine together or invite students to dine with them. Some few professors have entertained members of their classes in their homes, and some have had afternoons and evenings when they would welcome callers. But there has been a general lack of frequent intercourse between student and instructor, doubtless due in part...