Word: professores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Euros had suspected that nine out of ten tests were unreliable. To check his suspicions, he got 133 top-rank experts to rate the tests, Rutgers to publish their ratings (The 1938 Mental Measurements Yearbook-Rutgers University Press; $3). To some tests, notably Louis Thurstone's famed intelligence test for college freshmen (American Council on Education Psychological Examination), the experts gave a clean bill of health, high ratings. Elsewhere they turned up many a prize absurdity. Samples...
...Professor Buros' harrowing adventures began even before he had got his book to press. Most tests are marketed by commercial publishers, yield handsome profits to publishers and authors. When they had seen pre-publication copies of his book, some publishers began to appeal to Mr. Buros "in the name of common decency" to stop the presses. A distraught publisher: "Now, Oscar! Is this sporting? . . . During my four years of service in the United States Marine Corps and later during my service . . . with the A. E. F., it never occurred to me that I would ever be called upon...
...last week some test publishers had broken off diplomatic relations with Professor Buros. Nevertheless, the professor was almost ready to publish a second yearbook. This time, instead of 133 experts he had 245, among them such famed testers and educators as University of London's Charles Spearman, Yale's Edward S. Noyes, Iowa's Carl Seashore, Harvard's Charles Swain Thomas, University of Chicago's Ralph W. Tyler...
Dean Hanford, Zechariah Chafee, Langdell Professor of Law, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History will collaborate with the President, the Secretary and the Treasurer of the Student Council on the Faculty-undergraduate Committee recently created by the Corporation to aid in granting or withholding permission for use of the University halls, it was announced Saturday...
Alfred H. Sturtevant, Professor of Genetics and director of the William G. Kerckhoff Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, has been appointed visiting lecturer on Genetics for the second half of the current academic year, the University announced Saturday...