Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stop to it). Now 53, he went to Hawaii in 1921 as head of the hospital, a job he kept until his retirement last year. In the '20s the high infant-mortality rate on the plantations shocked him, but he thought the plantations potentially "the finest biological test tubes in the world." He talked the Association directors into establishing a health research center on Oahu...
...test was designed by Educator Hugh Russell Fraser and two-time Pulitzer Prizeman Allan Nevins, Columbia University's Professor of history. Object: "to determine the amount of U.S. history that the high-school graduate retains from his secondary course." The question of what he retains from other courses, of what he would retain from a compulsory college course, went necessarily unanswered...
...marking system used by the Times came in for plenty of blasting in the Crimson columns, which claim that it is rife with subjectivity. "Only 15 per cent of those taking the test knew that the Times thought that America's policy toward China was "Open Door" although Fine (the man who ran the show for the Times) says that "Friendliness" would have been acceptable. Anyone who went beyond that catchword was ridiculed," the student editors commented...
...Times insisted that all 2 percent of the facetious answers had been disregarded leaving nothing but honest answers. The Crimson couldn't see it that way--not quite. Said they, "Now test. In fact, no one would take it seriously unless he took everything seriously...
Taking it up from there, the Crimson went on to give its view on the significance of the test in the light of the attitude assumed towards it by the unhappy freshmen. "Just how many people answered in good faith is difficult to determine. Probably the best index question would be that on the Civil War President. The Times says that 25 per cent of the American college freshmen do not honestly know the answer to this question. A consensus of American History teachers at Harvard and other colleges has revealed 2 as the more likely figure...