Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrived on N.A.A.C.P. stationery, the City Club hastily sent an emissary to beg Ne gro Piekens to let his invitation "drop for fear of doing harm." Officials in Hyannis, Mass., who last month flunked Harvard's crusty 79-year-old President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell in a driving test (TIME, Sept. 14), gave him a new examination, announced that he had passed it, been granted a new license...
...Various small colleges adopted very modified generals in the second half of the 19th century. Harvard was the first college to install any large or comprehensive system, which it did in 1873. At that time, old catalogues show, all undergraduates in the College were subject to a general test of the knowledge they had gathered during their four years of study...
...requirements of the department of his major study, with regard not merely to his immediate choices of Junior courses, but to the plan of his entire work in preparation for the departmental examinations at the close of his Senior year. These departmental examinations, required of every student, will test his proficiency in his major subject as a whole...
Other advertisements in the series: "A Word to a Wise Woman" (taxes). "The Myth About Men & Machines." "Two Billion People Envy You." The last two prepared by Campbell-Ewald Co., harp the slogan, "There is No Way Like the American Way." NAM paid for the first test insertions but the plan is to have news papers sell the series as ready-made copy, the space to be paid for by individual manufacturers or local trade bodies. A number of the advertisements have appeared on this basis...
Featuring prominently a portrait of her own little self, the much advertised "Ann Marsters' Primer for Harvard Students" began its run yesterday in the Sunday Advertiser. Replete with sage advice on the advisability of passing the swimming test, and recommending those who wish to be different not to steal the Memorial Hall clapper, Miss Marster's article succeeded in filling a rather dull page with type, and little more. A large photograph of our men "studying" showed two reading magazines, and two absorbing learning from empty loose-leaf notebook covers. And the circulation of the Advertiser in Harvard Square remained...