Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such grind as the old College Boards, the new tests measure two qualities: scholastic aptitude (skill in reading, problem-solving, etc.) and "general achievement" (a short-answer test of knowledge in certain fields). Advantages: both can be taken in a single day and they are easy to grade...
Francis Parkman, Jr. '45, Committee Chairman, sent out a call for Yardlings with special acting ability or entertaining skill to participate in the program being planned for the dance. Interested Freshmen are asked to see John M. Alcorn '45, in Weld 33 as soon as possible...
Dean Donham's "practical skills" have an important place in preparing a man for making his living anywhere in the world--here or in Nazi Europe. But mere technical skill and ability to cooperate with other technicians is scarcely sufficient intellectual background for the average men, let alone potential leaders, in a modern democracy...
Teachers are 300 officers in Ben Lear's Army, chosen for pedagogical skill and leadership. Their orders: "Ordinary dull academic instruction is to be avoided...
...colleagues changed all that. When hired for an efficiency survey, they now recommend that foremen and union leaders (or workers' representatives) be called in. Now it is rare for Bedaux Co. to go into unorganized plants. Says Albert Ramond: "We need the union's practical skill as well as our own scientific skill so that with management we may arrive at a tri-partite agreement." Bonuses now go 100% to the worker, and he understands the pay formula (which he didn't before...