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...Harvard Norm...
...U.S.A.F.I. test plan which Dean Hanford has proposed to the student body. All students enrolled in the College have been asked to take a series of tests which will be given to servicemen as they are mustered out. The scores on these examinations will be used to establish a norm for veterans who are candidates for admission to Harvard. The times have already been set, and the locations will be announced later in the SERVICE NEWS...
Dean Hanford yesterday asked all students now enrolled at the College to reserve ten hours during the week beginning November 27 for a "patriotic service" to returning veterans. Students will be asked to take a series of five two-hour tests, which will establish Harvard's norm for judging the scores that voterans earn on taking the same tests as they leave the service...
...there were at least two notable deviations from the norm. The 13 petroleum companies increased both sales and earnings by a resounding 27% over last year. In contrast, the steel industry sweated out a new record of 67 million tons but took a 9% cut in profits. Thus steel earnings continued their two-year drop...
...football professors had been dead wrong, and humanly slow to admit it. Four years ago, coaches labeled the T formation a precarious stratagem suitable only for such star performers as Quarterback Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears and Fullback Norm Standlee of Stanford. Without such power and polish, said the coaches, the T formation wouldn't work...