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...after a six year period the results are decidedly negative. Comparison of the test results with the records made by the men in college show that in no case did the two show more than a fifty per cent correspondence. The endeavor to diagnose by psychology what value a student will obtain from a college education was no more efficacious than the older method of testing his knowledge by examinations...
Both of these measures, the one of the latent powers of the student's mind and the other of the training it has had, are necessarily limited in their usefulness as indicators of his later successes. The capabilities which they reveal with more or less accuracy resemble the system by which education in presented to the student in being only the raw material with which he is to work. Combined in varying proportions as determined by the individual and the college, they mark the outside limits of his achievements. But both system and native talent together can do little unless...
Rather more "literary" than the commercialized publisher and critic of the U. S., Mr. and Mrs. Woolf belong to a group of individualists who still take art seriously: Orient-student Arthur Waley (TIME, Aug. 27), Economist John Maynard Keynes, Biographer Lytton Strachey, esoteric Poet Osbert Sitwell, unique Author E. M. Forster. Many of these were at Cambridge together, have since formed the "Bloomsbury group," intermarrying, settling in adjacent houses, exciting themselves in common interests. Virginia Woolf is daughter to the Cambridge tutor and biographer Sir Leslie Stephen, sister-in-law to art critic Clive Bell, wife to Leonard Woolf, publisher...
...midshipman and cadet was written for today's issue of the Crimson by Lieutenant A. R. Taylor, of the United States Naval Academy class of 1922. During his last year at Annapolis, Taylor was managing editor of the Log, the Academy paper. He is now a graduate student in the Engineering school...
Editorials, Crime Column, the Student Vagabond (now and in 1800), football statistics and vital facts...