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...billion-dollar bear raid." The Senate Committee on Banking & Currency, on which Senator Walcott, once a Wall Streeter himself (Bonbright & Co.), is the Administration's spokesman, wanted Mr. Whitney to get up a complete list of persons on the short side of the market, wanted to quiz Mr. Wrhitney on bear practices and the Stock Exchange's rules...
...restricted field and will show a more mature and profound grasp of fundamentals. The steps taken will facilitate this opportunity for the superior student by exempting him from mechanical examinations on fact. The average student, through not exempt from the preliminary examinations, will in the final oral quiz have to show the same intelligent grasp of first principles. Both the superior and the average student will profit by the removal from graduate work of the incubus of men of sub-normal intelligence. The changes will make the degree of Ph.D. in Sociology mean intelligence rather than mere encyclopaedic knowledge...
...third $25. Since students are not required to register for the examination there is not indication of the number that will compete. Last year only 25 contestants wrote papers. Although the contest is open to Radcliffe students as well as Harvard undergraduate few of the former have taken the quiz in past years. It is not necessary to be a Government student to compete. Any one who is fairly conversant with the news of the day will find the test within his capabilities. Group IV and V men have won the prizes in previous years...
...easy for Yale University's shrewd biology students. As their instructor read out his weekly yes-&-no quiz all they had to do was wait to hear their blind classmate's answer. Since he was brilliant and assiduous, they were sure of good marks if they just translated "yes" for his three clicks...
...limits of the yes and no exam. This is, of course, no reflection on the sons of Eli in their non-academic capacity, but refers to the scientific racket recently exposed at Yale. Fortunate in the possession of a blind scholar, equipped with the necessary intelligence, when the weekly quiz came around the sly Yale boys just counted the taps on his typewriter and with rapid manipulation of their fingers were able to decipher the opinion of the blind Homer on the subject at hand. The resulting standard of infallibility was, of course, of short duration for the authorities took...