Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-26
A General Efficiency Examination

BY DIR. FRANK CRANE
There are all sorts of examinations and
tests which school teachers and others use
in prosecuting youth, so here is another on
the subject of general efficiency. You will
please take pen and paper and answer the
following questions. Each one that you can
honestly answer by Eyes" counts you ten.
You must get $50 out of a possible $50 in
order to pass. If you don't pass the COLLINS
will get you if you don't watch out
1. Are you in good health?
2. Have you been examined within a
year by a medical expert, to find out If you
are perfectly sound?
8. Do you stand straight and sit straight?
4. Do you battle every day?
5, Do you brush your teeth three times a
day?
6. Do your bowels move regularly?
z. Do you chew your food well?
g. Do you take exercise regularly?
g. Do you sleep with the windows of
your room open?
10. Do you know approximately what kind
of food, and how many calories, is best for
you, and do you eat intelligently?
IL. Do you abstain from all alcoholic bev-
advice of a physician?
IL. Have you been through high school,
or are you going through? Cor some equiva-
lent.)
10 Do you speak correct English and are
you trying daily to Oevrcome your mistakes?
IA. Do you study hard for at least an hour
every day?
Is. Are you fond of reading books?
It, Do you write plainly so that you hear
no one complain of your ELIGIBILITY?
II. Do you remember names and faces, or
do you practice to improve yourself in this?
Is. Have you good memory?
10. Can you concentrate?
20. Are you careful to speak of the absent
only what you would say in their presence?
FL. Do you avoid as far as possible hurt
ing any ones feelings?
%. Do you respect other peoples opinions.
and refuse to get angry nth them because
they do not agree with you?
%. Do you think twice before you speak?
"a. Are you neat in appearance, and do
you strive to dress so as to be as pleasing as
possible to others?
%. Are you punctual?
26. Do you punctiliouly keep your word?
81. Are you scrupulously honest?
%. Do you mind your own business strict
ly? Do you never read other peoples let
ters listen to what does not concern you, or
give advice when not as ID?
20. Are you polite, tactful, and self-con-
trolled?
80. Do you have a system and follow it?
81. Are you ambitious?
80. Are you contented?
80. Do you try to adjust yourself to cir
cumstances you cannot control?
"a. Do you refuse to criticize people, to
complain of your diseases or your luck, and
to look gloomy?
35. Are you brave enough to say 81 don't
know when you don't know, and to refuse
your assent to or belief in what you do not
understand?
SO. Are you kind, and do you avoid loud
or ugly words?
81 Can you keep a secret so that none
will know you have one?
SO. Are you modest? Do you avoid boast
ing and talking of yourself?
49, Are you en- gagged in some useful work,
and do you save something regularly?
40 Have you sense of humor?
Al. Are you patriotic?
Az Are you optimistic and cheerful?
AZ Are you free from superstition?
"A Are you in love?
As And do you pray?
This article was suggested by school ex-
animation III public schoo 81, Bronx, N. Y,
by Principal Gabriel r. Mason.
Copyright, 1918, by Frank Crane)