Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-23
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE

NO1NlA1AS~ ANO ! M NV LA1IOL
 Washingtons Birthday will be ob-. served at the college by half holi- day, patriotic exercises and a recep- tion for students and faculty on Mon-. day evening.
 Glasses will be held in the morning until eleven o'clock after which time course recitations will be called off until the following day At eleven O.. clock patriotic exercises will be held in the gymnasium, under the direction of President Benjamin T. Marshall. President Marshall will speak, and a committee of the faculty will present. subjects of timely and appropriate in- terest. Community singing, under student leaders, ill1also be part of the morning exercises.
 In the evening President and Mrs. Marshall will entertain at the college, at a formal reception for members of the college body. Musical programs have been arranged with out of town artists who have appeared at the coll lege on various other occasions. al- ways to the great enjoyment of the students. An orchestra will play for dancing and refreshments will be served by members of the student body. A committee of faculty and students will assist the president and his wife in receiving the guests. The custom of entertaining on Washington's Birthday was instituted i by President Marshall two years age and is one of the most pleasurable oc- ] casions for faculty and studen as- sembly.
 The weekly issue of the "Connecti- cut College News" contains an inter esting account of the results of the ] freshmen intelligence tests applied by F<,1 l to the entering class. Several compar- isons with other colleges are given al 1 though few of the many educational | institutions which gave the tests earlier in the college year have pull 1 lished the results since the real ain of the experiment cannot be accom- l plished until the coming June.
 The aim of these intelligence tests l is to correlate the grade a studen makes on his or her intelligence tes with the college record of the stu dent
 1 The median score of freshmen a Connecticut college is identical witl i the median score of freshmen, botf men and women at Dickerson college ] it is six points below the mediar ! score of the mixed freshmen class a ! the University of Illinois.
 1 It is noticed that since the inte1li. 1 gence test aims to test native or in ] born intelligence and not education %ol ! training that a higher average fol ! upperclassmen does not necessaril, mean that upperclassmen are more in. { telligence than freshmen it may only ! mean that the less bolSntiful blessed freshmen tend to drop out befori l completing their college course the ! average of the upper classes beinl thus raised. Of 88 freshmen tested i 52 per cent. ranked very superior, 8 i per cent. ranked superior, 4 per cent i ranked high average and one per cent ranked low average.
 President Marshall is on leave o absence temporarily, featuring am speaking at club assemblies ant
 schools in the New England states Always a fluent speaker, with person
 ality as we'll as complete understand
 ing and comprehension of his sub
 ject, the president is constantly calle
 upon to address prominent gathering:
 Among the latest points of his itin
 cary were the School Masters Gu
 of Connecticut at Hartford, and tht
 Centenary Collegiate Institute C
 Hackettstown, New Jersey. At tn,
 Masters Club President Marshall too
 for his subject "A Plea For Complet
 Understanding and Sympathy Be
 
 es."
 Basketball is the sport of the hou
 at the college. Games and practic
 games keep the gymnasium constant
 in use and the competition betwee
 class teams and class players is yer
 keen.
 The basketball squads this year ar the best which have ever been repre-
 sentative of the college. The pla is varied, either wall, criss cross ( , a combination of both, as the clat may elect, and the team work splendid. Each team has it's distir
 guished qualities for superiority; or
 showing spectacular individual pla such as basket throwing, another spt ciaIizes in guarding the basket shark
 while others aim for complete tea work rather than individual skill. The entire student body has turnt out in full numbers to attend the il terclass games, and enthusiasm an interest in the games runs high
 Fast games and speedy passiI
 make for intense enjoyment of u
 games and each game is hearti | championed by eager onlookers.
 In Wednesday nights game the S : nior first team won by a score of 8 6, in a game with the juniors; u junior second team at the same tin
 beat the senior team by score 17-11.
 Dorothy Wulf, of Norwich, is ca, s tain of the junior first team; ar U Irene Wholey, also of Norwich, is ! member of the second senior team. . Professor Lillian Welsh, professor ? physiology and hygiene at Couch d college, will talk on American w . men in Science" at weekly convoc a tion, to be held February 24th. = Welsh isc a graduate of the Womer
 Medical College of Pennsylvania al
 of the University of Zurich, Switze n land. She has been prominent and i e fluential in the promotion of scient Q research by women and her leetu !, promises to be most interesting n well as instructive.