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...Stanford-Binet, like the old, is oral. A new edition of Professor Terman's manual, Measuring Intelligence, gives instructions for administering and scoring the questions. To avoid duplication in the case of students tested twice in one year, these have been increased from a single set of 90 to two sets of 129 apiece...
...exams will be given: in the morning a scholastic aptitude test consisting of an oral quiz and a written math exam; in the afternoon a scholastic achievement test which covers literature, languages, History, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences, with some options being being given...
Thus stood the earliest college entrance requirements set by Harvard College. Early examinations were oral. This procedure was not improved until 1845 when Horace Mann spurred the introduction of written examinations in Boston, whence they soon spread to all U. S. schools. In 1900 came another improvement when the College Entrance Examination Board was founded to give uniform examinations whose passage would admit students to all first-class colleges and universities. In the course of educational evolution, some advanced pedagogical theorists have now grown critical of this system, too. Last week they were pleased to find that their dissatisfaction...
...Department of English shys away from Public Speaking much as it would from a mad dog, locking up the rude intruder in an academic cellar along with a bone or two. Since to the scholars of literature oral English is not quite respectable and nowheres near par with the other sides of the language, the arrangements for courses in speaking are farcical, tending to discourage the students. The three half courses, for only one of which is credit given, are the minimum the Department thinks it can establish without starting an open revolt. Professor Packard has built the nucleus...
Beginning modestly with a simple dance number from The Big Broadcast, the Orchestra got warmer on Berry's syncopated satire of William Tell, warmer still when Jack Teagarden rose and blared trickily on his trombone. Critic-Composer Deems Taylor, hired as oral annotator of the program, proposed that the jazz concert be considered "a vacation from culture," warned: "You have heard scandalous things but worse are coming...