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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Terman (pére), father of many of our present testing concepts, was emphatic about not taking intelligence tests too seriously. He said, "Only through repeated tests of the same individual over periods of time can any reasonable norm be established. No one knows just what physical or emotional problems the testee may be laboring under . . . plus a possible unrelated background to the culture on which the tests are based. There is also a considerable learned facility in taking tests by those familiar with them, which places at a disadvantage those who are new to the game...
...Present regulations of the field," he continued, "provide that those failing or not taking the examination must pass it at the end of the senior year, before they can proceed to orals. These regulations will apply." According to this regulation, students will have the option of taking their exams next Spring, but they will not have a second chance if they then fail...
Thomas Atkins, Boston's only black City Councillor, will present his views on the University and the community. Then Henry R. Norr '68, a graduate student at the Ed School who is running for the Board of Overseers, will speak on SDS and the New Left...
...letter threatens no specific action by SDS if the Corporation's reply is not satisfactory, because such an ultimatum was rejected by the 700 present at the mass meeting as too restricting. It does, however, conclude with a more generalized threat of militant action...
...Because of the extreme lack of clarity of the Bruner resolution; because the present rules of Harvard exclude the possibility of an undergraduate organization which is controlled by an outside agency; because of contradictory statements by the Administration and the faculty, we who are demanding the complete end to ROTC on campus require answers to the following simple questions by Monday, April...