Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work at that time consisted fundamentally in gathering statistics and making forecasts based upon the laws developed in the early test period. These forecasts were based entirely upon the scientific statistics and personal opinions and prejudices were not allowed to enter their formation. The results were entirely satisfactory. The boom of 1919 and acute depression of 1920 were anticipated several months before their occurrence. The same principles are now applied to the extension of the economic service which was organized on the first of this year. The Committee issues a weekly letter outlining the current business situation and forecasting...
...Dean Donham's report, published today, shows that carefully planned intelligence tests are not to be scorned. The fact that they have proved remarkably accurate gauges of the mental ability of Business School students, suggests that they might prove of equal value in testing fitness for entrance to College. The great complaint against ordinary scholastic examinations has been that they do not test a man's capacity for learning, but only the amount of learning he may have already stored up. Clearly, the results of a psychological test, if applied with discretion, are a closer estimate of intrinsic mental power...
...University squad was given a hard work-out yesterday, but only light work was assigned to the 1925 runners, in preparation for the triangular meet on Saturday. This meet will be the first test of the strength of the Freshman team and the coaches expect the yearling runners to show up well against their schoolboy opponents. In trials so far this winter no outstanding stars have appeared, but there are a number of reliable men in each event who ought to win places. The Freshman team seems to be strongest in the distance runs and the hurdles...
When the University crew makes its official debut on the river against Pennsylvania next April it will be taking the first step in a schedule calculated to test its power to the limit. Not in years has a University eight faced a task such as is called for on this season's program, for not only does the crew card list the names of five of the leading combinations in the country, crews that have during past years won highest honors in intercollegiate rowing, but it contains many other racing features including the usual meets with...
...building adjoining the newspaper office, which I described in my last letter, we found a pile of mutilated leaves, of a smaller size and more compact than those of the newspaper. These also proved to contain writing when subjected to the water test. As we had difficulty in entering this building, which was in the nature of a cell, we came to the conclusion that it was a storehouse either for precious documents or for matter which had been banned and stored away from the public eye under lock and key. The material in the documents, which took the form...