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

| than the average Harvard student,' he added, nor that the "A woman stu dent excels the "A male student, but rather that there is more poor ma terial largely in the shape of special students at Harvard than in its sister institution. Radcliffe, for various req sons, is not likely to attract the friv- olous student. Neither does this neces- sarily imply that the most intellectual are drawn to. Radcliffe.
 T am ready to, admit that girl stu dents have obtained higher score in my tests than one might expect. In the Pittsburg high schools, where six ty selected students underwent d three hour test, the two leaders were girls. At Simmons college and at Vassar stu dents scored remarkable percentages (considering the difficulty of the prob lems), and it is germane to ask why, if women show high intelligence in such tests, they do not measure up with men in accomplishment after they are grad uated.
 ''The question requires detailed in- vestigation and the approach will ever be beset by complicating factors; but it is my impression that in the first place men possess in larger measure the germs of genius, hence make good in particular branch in which they become interested. Genius and intelli- gence are known to be separate things, though there may be common sector underlying both. Again men are influ- enced by certain factors which do not operate to the same extent in women. Capable men seem to be pertinacious, keep their. purpose always before them and are more objective. Capable women are often handicapped by weakness of will and tempenmental lapses.
 Tt is my belief, too, that women of great intelligence are never free from the domestic complex, which is a dis tracing subcOnscious undercurrent to them whether they remain unmarried or not. may sum up by saying that even if it should be proved that the superior woman is more@ntelligent than the superior man, the man, neverthe- less, will be able to accomplish more with his intelligence. Instinctive drives. temperamental and character traits must be reckoned with in examining the success or failure of people. Certainly man has more driving force than woman"
 The quotation from the test which follow are genuine, taken right out of an examination paper and produced un- der fire. This test was designed to last some three hours and the quotations are in the order asked, taken at ran dom from the examination paper, but preserving the sequence.
 Hard One At The Start
 Thirty minutes was allowed for the problem test, consisting of eight ques- tions. One of these read as follows If two. negatives make an affirmative, why cannot two wrongs make q right" The student answered: Because a wrong is not necessarily a negative or thou shalt not Often q positive action is a decided wrong. The second negative in sentence contradicts the first negative and is matter of speech. A wrong committed can only be can celed (if at alu by right which at tempts to undo it."
 Another question which had decided economic trend presented this problem Tt is reported that in certain distant country the inhabitants make living by taking in one another's washing. Why do you suppose this to be improb able? Here was the answer: If Mrs. A pays Mrs. B for getting her washing done, after their debts were settled neither would have any money to pay for their living in other respects. This, of course, assuming that family wash ings average the same"
 In another question the student was asked to solve this difficulty: You are on the seventh floor. of large store waiting for the elevator to take you down to the ground floor. Two descend Ing elevators appear at your floor, both stopping at the same time. The one on your right attracts crowd of people and IS being filled to capacity the one on your left gets only two passengers. II you were in a hurry which one of the elevators would you enter and why: And here was the answer: II would enter the one with the crowd because, being filled to capacity, it would not make any more stops and would reach the main floor before the other, which probably would make Stops all the way down."
 Getting More Complicated
 To the laymen these answers would seem enlightening, but the examiner gave the student bare 56 out of pos sible 100. And he did not fare so well Tn the acumen test, getting but 45. This was one of the posers he faced: 'The initiated Booth as Hamlet bet ter than Booth himself acted the part. In tackling this problem the student was required to state in very concise but convincing language what was wrong with that and other conundrums
 This was his reply to the first propo- sition: limitation to be perfect must be like the thing or person initiated. Sentence above implies emulation, which is more than imitation. The sen tence implies two ideas-Comedian imi- tating Booth and comedian acting part of Hamlet. If Booth acted part 0f