Word: predictive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Testing to provide the basis for concentration advice was started in 1946. Its purpose, as expressed by Dyer, was "to get a series of interest and aptitude tests that could be used to predict the field of concentration in which a student would succeed best...
...Dyer has the class of 1950, the first class to take the tests, classified by summa, magna, and cum laude, graduation without honors, late graduation, and no graduation. By comparing how these classes of students in the various fields of concentration did on the tests, he can predict what field of concentration would seem to be the best for a particular student taking the tests this year...
Bert Haines, lightweight crow coach, wasn't sure of the weather last night--"anyone who has lived in New England knows you can't predict the weather"--but he expressed monosyllabic confidence as to the outcome of today's race...
These programs will probably be accomplished, if Sarah Lawrence demonstrates its past tendencies to improve itself as it matures. The administration has constantly shown a remarkable ability to analyze its own weaknesses and to correct them. Because of Harold Taylor, Dean Raushenbush and an understanding faculty, one may safely predict that Sarah Lawrence will continue to blaze its own academic trails.Historian HANS ROGGER, presently associated with the Russian Research Center at Harvard, talks to a group of students after a class...
Although he is a Harvard Overseer, Wood also owes allegiance to Washington University, a former gridiron non-entity which gained overnight notoriety after inclusion on next fall's Crimson schedule. Wood wouldn't go out on the limb to predict the winner, but he did say that the Bears are a tough "T" team, with two or three outstanding ballplayers and a strong first string. He wasn't sure, however, that they would have the depth to keep up with Harvard next October...