The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27

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 The examiner must have had hard time puzzling out that answer. But q worse possibility waited just ahead. pre- sented in this way: If only every body made it q point to come few minutes before s instead of few min utes after the rush would be avoided. This was the restatement of the case by the student: Sentence means to imply that late rush would be avoided be- cause if everybody changed their time of coming to an earlier time the crowd ing would still be there. Of course, a crowd ahead of time would not be so much inclined to rush through doors as if it was late.
 How The Examiner Got Even Another matter for serious thought came. up in this way: If I am not mistaken, 1 met them last week." The student evidently believed that the ex- aminer needed little checking up, and this was his answer: ''He means to imply: If 1 am not mistaken in my belief met them last week." The sen- tence as it stands would suggest: If I am not mistaken about meeting them, I met them" which is redundancy.
 That last phrase was purely matter of opinion. and students have no busi- ness to hold opinions about what their exmainers do. But the examiner in this case got even with the student by pro- pounding another hard one: If he had not gone to the country instead of vast ing his time in poOlrooms he would have been much better off today" That was proposition to make any student un- coOsen his collar another notch. But this one struggled with the idea like a Spartan and brought forth the following conclusion "The word not has slipped into the sentence wrongly. If he had not gone to the country implies a sup position that he stayed at home. instead of wasting his time in poOlrooms, also implies that he stayed home, two things the same, which leaves no alternative to choose from"
 Anybody can see what that student was suffering, but all the things that had gone before were as nothing com pared to this: Describe the situation in which few refers to larger number than few And here was the answer :: Few people have heard of mental tests and only a few could pass them." It was suggested to Dr. Langfeld that intelligence tests might become general for the entrants to all colleges, especially in view of trials already con- ducted along this line.
 Skeptical of Intelligence Test
 q am not convinced that the tests are well adapted for that purpose" he said. Tt is an open question. Let us suppose that we undertook to sort out our students on the basis of intelli- gence as shown by our tests. It is probable that we would lose a number of prominent men who might have had poor instruction; whose information was not adequate to enable fair showing on questions which, involve considerable information.
 "There is no way to wholly divorce the matter of information and reason ing. Any problem we may select must depend in part upon previous knowl- edge. So it is apparent that if a man lacks special kind of information he cannot answer definite question. But that same man may have an excellent mind. Therefore, I am skeptical about the intelligence test as yardstick to measure the capacities of incoming stu dents. It seems to me that we can use the tests in connection with the usual requirements as a means of finding out the weaknesses and strong points of students, but surely not as a conclu- sive means of determining their fitness for higher education"
 Dr. Langfeld pointed out that the special peril of any dogmatic rule was the inclination to depend upon the rule and overlook the human element.
 Every day we see men succeed whose intelligence we would not class fly as high" he said, "yet they succeed in the practical affairs of life. Usually they have large endowment of deter imitation, patience and hardand-fast bargain with themselves not to give up. All of these things lie outside the pale of intelligence to q great degree any man may possess them without intelli- gence, although they should be engen dered when his mind is enlightened. But enlightenment without will power never will make for success.
 T am certain that in the academic world we always have put too much stress upon memory and not enough upon reasoning. Memory is the store house of information and one of the best assets of the high-powered brain. But memory under another guise is harmful. There is the student, for in- stance, who easily memorizes lessons, using his mind as kind of photo graphic plate, without any real mental activity. Memories of that sort often are the most fertile for the time heinz they will easily absorb band supply on demand almost any information re- quired. But the mind as whole does not get the instruction required, and this information later on slips from the photographic memory plate without any special benefit to the student, no mat ter how high he may have stood in classes"
 Eggs of the emu, of which usually from nine to thirteen are laid in nest on the ground, are hatched by the cock bird
 Among the many banana trees in the Philippines ia the musa textilis. which furnishes the Manila hemp (abaca) of commerce.