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President Lowell has only recently deprecated the prevailing system of establishing the course as the unit of education instead of the student. Perhaps the two steps farther from this tendency are the tutorial system and the Divisional examinations. Both tend to minimize the value of the course as a yardstick, and in both may be the answer to intelligent ranking of a student's ability. To make the Divisional examination an oral one, and the only one of the four years is seemingly too idealistic. It implies a faith in the student to appreciate fully his ultimate aim in education...
Because 100 yards happens to be about the longest distance that a conditioned athlete can run in a single burst of full speed, it has long been the most important yardstick in U. S. track sports. European sprinters dash 100 metres (109.39 yds.). Successive generations of runners have succeeded, by study as well as sinew, in whittling down the yardstick infinitesimally. In 1906 the world's record for 100 yards was set at 9.6 sec. Last May Eddie Tolan, short, spectacled Negro student in the University of Michigan, ran 100 yards in 9.5 sec. in the Western Conference championships...
Lest anyone should suppose that this "parity" was worked out with the aid the once famed but now forgotten "Scientific Naval Yardstick" called for by President Hoover (TIME, May 6, et seq.), senator Robinson said: "Prolonged investigation of the subject led to the conclusion that no scientific basis exists for measuring the difference in value between large 8-inch gun cruisers and vessels carrying 6-inch guns...
...principles on which the award is made distinguish it from other trophies such as the Wingate and Wendell awards in baseball in which excellence, is the criterion. The donors of the Tudor Trophy have taken another yardstick by which to base their choice; the recipient's value to Harvard hockey, not so much in his superior ability as in his service, development and possession of that intangible quality "heart". According to the donors these are the qualities which they found were best exemplified in the man whose name the Trophy bears. It is not only a fitting tribute...
Destroyers and Cruisers. In the destroyer category it may be possible to strike a simple ratio among the Powers, but cruisers come in so many sizes of such widely different fighting power that they present a highly complex problem in comparison, perhaps to be solved with the famed "Hoover Yardstick" (TIME, Sept. 23). Exactly what this is the Engineer-President has never publicly explained; and the Sea Lords of the British Admiralty to whom it has been privately explained have never been enthusiastic. But last week Ramsay MacDonald said in his hearty ringing way: "We shall deal with every class...