Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then there is her rake of a husband. Naturally, under such circumstances it is the wife not the husband, who is caught in a compromising situation and ruthlessly divorced from husband and child. Then comes the handsome Conway Tearle, sweet and unmarried. He offers her an apartment-to test her. Suddenly she hears that her child is dead and accepts. But the child isn't dead; so she disaccepts. In his embarrassment the handsome Conway marries her. To accentuate the purity of everyone's morals, free-apartment ladies permeate the scene. In the play; the heroine herself became...
...speaker for the affirmative after a brief preliminary address and reading of the question. Darby made it clear in the beginning that the affirmative agreed with the negative in two respects; first that limitation of enrolment was necessary, and second that they recognized that scholastic attainments were the preliminary test. "But we don't want grinds and bookworms," said Darby, "but leaders with personality and initiative, and a single scholastic standard is no criterion of the worth of men who possess these characteristics. Don't put the whole system of education in a threehour examination straightjacket," he concluded...
...second speaker for the affirmative, and he maintained that the attempt of the negative to apply to human beings purely mechanical standards was impossible. "We should view the applicant from all angles," he said, "and institute the broadest possible standard. We can do this with a psychological test or an intelligence test, which will test a candidate's retentive mind, ability to think constructively, and his will...
...closing speaker, P. W. Williams '25, was easily the most brilliant speaker of the evening. In replying to the argument of the preceding speaker that a test for character was also an essential requisite for admission to college. Williams said, "By character they mean application, industry, and effort. The examination system is the best test of character as it is properly defined for it requires these essential qualities. By intelligence tests they attempt to estimate a candidate's promise, but in view of the fact that a man's character does not change in a day, the best test...
...this evening will be the opportunity of comparing University speakers, who are but gradually approaching the fluent conversational style, with those of Yale and Princeton where changes in the old order have been made with great vigor and enthusiasm. To some degree the results should measure the appeal and test the practicability of a new style of public address...