Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Euros had suspected that nine out of ten tests were unreliable. To check his suspicions, he got 133 top-rank experts to rate the tests, Rutgers to publish their ratings (The 1938 Mental Measurements Yearbook-Rutgers University Press; $3). To some tests, notably Louis Thurstone's famed intelligence test for college freshmen (American Council on Education Psychological Examination), the experts gave a clean bill of health, high ratings. Elsewhere they turned up many a prize absurdity. Samples...
...last week some test publishers had broken off diplomatic relations with Professor Buros. Nevertheless, the professor was almost ready to publish a second yearbook. This time, instead of 133 experts he had 245, among them such famed testers and educators as University of London's Charles Spearman, Yale's Edward S. Noyes, Iowa's Carl Seashore, Harvard's Charles Swain Thomas, University of Chicago's Ralph W. Tyler...
Editors of the University of South Carolina yearbook, who had asked King George VI to choose pictures of the seven prettiest co-ed students at U. of S. C., received a courteous regret from Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. Wrote the Ambassador: "I am sorry . . . the King is very busy conferring with his Ministers on the war situation and has no time for the lighter, if finer, things of life...
...runs Senior Class elections and Senior Album elections. Of much more interest to Freshmen is the Council's financial guarantee of all Freshman extra-curricular activities, such as dances and the Freshman Red Book (annual yearbook). Besides these, it contributes to the support of the Freshman Smoker, the class get-together and fun-fest in the spring...
Although cover plans which call for unique new phototone engraving scheme are still indefinite, the 1939 senior Album Committee has practically completed rounding out the other one for the Junior Yearbook which will be distributed about...