Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...courses the entrance requirements of a degree from an approved college or scientific school will be modified so as to admit men who were entitled to senior rank at the beginning of the academic year 1918-19 and who have been for six months engaged in military or civilian war work...
Before the meeting, a session of the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet was held at which the report of the War Cabinet was read. The work done during the fall showed commendable achievement considering war conditions. The officers of the regularly elected Cabinet are R. S. Emmet '19, president; J. G. Coolidge '20, vice-president; E. A. McCouch '20, secretary; D. C. Hawkins '20, treasurer. Officers of the War Cabinet were R. H. Howe '19, president; J. M. Steele, Jr., '21, vice-president; E. C. Storrow, Jr., '21, secretary; and E. L. Peirson, Jr., '21, treasurer
...main problem which was before the psychologists in the Great War was to put "the right man in the right place" and to place him quickly. For this purpose, several co-ordinate methods were devised, the most interesting being the psychological tests, the trade tests, the classification system, and the rating scale...
...became evident in the beginning of the war when demands came to Washington for cooks, lumbermen, carpenters, etc., that it would be necessary to know where the men with such qualifications could be found. For that purpose, the Committee on Classification of Personnel was employed in classifying and placing three and one-half million men according to occupation, trade, scale, schooling, intellectual ability, etc. This committee also provided tables of occupational needs and of the specifications and personnel for the various trades. In this invaluable work the executive ability and common sense of the psychologist was of more importance than...
...qualities, we must acknowledge that his death is one of the greatest blessings ever bestowed upon this country. He was dangerous, not to be trifled with. To his door can be attributed the cause of more sorrow, misery and disease than any other single factor in American life. The war only too clearly showed there is no place for him in a serious nation. By cutting out the heart of the cancer, only can the cancer be cured. The necessary operation has been performed...