Word: tested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant's speech before the educational conference in New York brings to light a theory of education based on the evaluation of a student's ability along special lines. The means of testing this ability in the student who is not overly brilliant in one specific field, but who possesses definite talent in another, is by a combination of various methods of testing. This would involve a merger of such examinations as those conducted by the College Entrance Examination Board, but would not be limited to a specific subject. This general aspect of the examinations would permit the student...
Unquestionably the student who is of outstanding ability, regardless of his secondary school background of training, emerges in top position in college. For the man of lower standing the test would be the most valuable. Through the practice of this theory, a far more just standard of judging students would be reached. Entrance examinations would of course be retained but would be given in this combined form. Although the translation of the theory into actual college entrance policy would require a general reorganization of the present system, it is an experiment well worth testing...
...later than to any other section. The University of Virginia, which is generally credited with starting the modern game of football in the South, sent a team to try out the North in 1890, two decades after the first intercollegiate game was played in New Brunswick, N. J. The test was revealing. Princeton repulsed the invaders...
...invaders Coach Jaakko Mikkola places the Indians as easily the stronger. He is very impressed by their team, and is admittedly worried about today's test. Nor does Jaakko pass over New Hampshire lightly. There is Quinn to beat, and likewise another gentleman Arthur D. Bishop '39 who, excluding graduates, on the basis of last year's race is rated third to Whitman and Quinn...
...rolling bosom of the Pacific. Only too glad was the California State Fisheries Laboratory, which released them from its ship the Bluefin, to have lucky fishermen find them floating in the deep. For the bottles which contained not wine but sand and a return postcard, were released to test the ocean drift which carries the pelagic eggs and larvae of sardines. Last week it was reported that only 150 bottles had been found. The farthest traveler had drifted 400 miles south, to Lower California, in 38 days...