Word: subject
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other sources on Divinity Avenue saw the measure both as an economy move and as the result of a growing feeling that "human" Geography is out of place at Harvard. The subject became a concentration field...
...taking of attendance seems as incongruous in 1948 as it did in 1934. Monitors do not begin to operate until the first month of the course is almost over, and even after that they are far from perfection--being subject as they are to mechanical flaws and bribery on the grounds of friendship...
...testing executives for new jobs, S.R.I. depends chiefly on its own applications of psychologists' "thematic-apperception test," in which the subject is asked for his reaction to certain pictures. Among the ten pictures used by S.R.I.: a boy, leaning on his chin, contemplating a violin and bow; a boy and a woman in conversation; a boy at a window looking up into the sky; a man on a rope...
Typical reaction of those who flunk the rope picture test: the man is climbing down the rope. (Successful executives usually say he is climbing up.) The boy and woman picture is actually a test of aggressiveness, in which likely subjects see a boy leaving home no matter what his mother says. Less promising subjects see him waiting for her decision, or accepting her command to stay home. The reactions to S.R.I.'s pictures also give clues to such considerations as whether a subject becomes confused or lost in detail (a bad sign), and how active his imagination...
...Success. With formal questioning and informal ("Tell me about yourself") interviews, the whole S.R.I, test takes only 40 minutes. Analyzers then take about five hours to weigh the answers "blind" (they never see the subject) and predict how the subject will do in a certain...