Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Released early in September by Henry S. Dyer, Director of the Office of Tests, this pamphlet is formally called "The Proper Use of Objective Test Scores: A Handbook for Harvard Advisers." Unpublicized and virtually unknown outside the administration and the faculty, this little handbook has great importance for both freshman advisers and students...
...Report tries to interpret various test scores, to give them proper weight, and to analyze their significance. It aims at destroying the idea that "the interpretation of test scores is a difficult and technical matter which should be left to 'experts.'" And it hopes to give advisers a clear understanding of test results so that they may use them effectively in guiding students...
...Report is quick to point out that the results of such investigations can never be completely accurate. They do, however, help the adviser to find a "proper balance between blind faith and complete skepticism...
Each Freshman Adviser receives a Summary Card for his advisees, containing school record, admission test scores, and school rank. He also gets a Course Placement Recommendation Slip, which bases specific course recommendations on placement exam grades. A proper interpretation of these materials, at which the Report aims, may result in proper guidance. It should prevent over-loading or incorrect emphasis...
Concerning the general and his background, Rovere and Schlesinger have considerably more to say. 175 of the 252 pages of the book proper (there are 70 pages of appended documents) are devoted to tracing Douglas MacArthur's career form his birthplace in a military camp in Arkansas to his latest residence in a tower suite at the Waldorf Astoria. The technique of the narrative is to set the reader up with several pages of straight reporting, then siam him with a few paragraphs of interpretation. The tone is not so unfriendly to MacArthur as some of his other critical have...