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...Hambidge cites the case of a high-school graduate who was refused admission to a college because he flunked an English entrance examination and an oral intelligence test. Later someone investigated his high-school record, learned that at twelve he had read all of Shakespeare's plays and written an essay on Shakespeare in Politics; at 13 he read Hugo, Balzac, Molière and Racine (in French) and wrote book reviews for a local newspaper; at 14 he learned Spanish by himself and translated three French comedies into English; at 15 he wrote a book on geography...
Harvard has made a poor showing in the latest Foreign Service examinations, Shaw said. Last September out of 32 men who took the tests only 11 got the 70 per cent mark necessary to win an oral interview, and only one was finally accepted. Seven were taken in the 1938 competition, he added. Yale and Princeton have both outstripped Harvard recently, with Dartmouth and Williams well up in the running...
Leroy M. S. Miner, Professor of Oral Clinical Surgery and dean of the Dental School, will be inducted as President of the American Association of Dental Schools tomorrow at its annual meeting in Philadelphia. Professor Miner has been dean of the Dental School since 1924, and is a former president of the American Dental Association...
...Swarthmore honor students, chosen by examinations at the end of sophomore year, have seminars instead of classes their last two years, study independently, are finally examined (written and oral exams) by outside educators. To carry out his second aim, Dr. Aydelotte, who is himself a crack golfer and onetime footballer, ruled that every Swarthmore boy and girl must spend some time on the college playing fields. At the same time he took Swarthmore out of bigtime athletics, restricted its games to teams in its own class. Unknown at Swarthmore are long, irksome hours of practice, subsidization of athletes. Swarthmore boys...
...safeguardians was Nathan Witt, 36, Secretary of the Board, an old employe, hardworking, father of two, conscientious. Artfully into the record Counsel Toland introduced a series of memos from Board Member Leiserson to Board Chairman J. Warren Madden. In them, Dr. Leiserson: 1) accused Mr. Witt of giving oral reports of cases differing from the record, complaining about "the usual irregularities in procedure characteristic of the Secretary's office"; 2) agreeing with Chairman Madden that the Universal Pictures case in which Mr. Witt was involved "smelled"; 3) protesting about Mr. Witt "and his amateur detectives"; 4) moving that...