University exam tests general knowledge for education students
Raymond A. Kent conducted a fifty question test for junior and senior College of Education classes and a parallel high school group. Questions covered vice presidents, governors, rulers, world locations, famous figures, books, poems, and common knowledge. Scores were low, with some as low as 16 percent. high school results were even poorer.
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Raymond A. Kent
University High School
College of Education
United States
Minnesota
England
Germany
Petrograd
Vatican
Coliseum
Parthenon
Golden Horn
Golden Gate
Saul
Pacific Ocean
Treasure Island
The
Virginian
Franklin
Paul Revere
Alexander Graham Bell
Father Damien
Daniel Boone
Edward McDowell
Florence Nightingale
Fritz Kreisler
Mary Pickford
Alladin
Shylock
Little Eva
Rowena
New York Sun
Cattle Baron Encounters Boisterous College Crowd
In a streetcar incident, a cattle baron narrator recalls a rowdy group of students with quirky dress and noisy behavior. A student taunts him before others answer with a bold, reciprocal joke. The mood shifts as the crowd yells and laughs aboard, highlighting streetcar dynamics of the era.
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Dad Bing
The Clinging Vine and the Sturdy Oak
A humorous dialect meditation on gender roles uses a bushy oak as the man and a climbing vine as the woman. The speaker questions who truly bears support in illness and daily life and suggests vines should cling to the sturdy oak through hardship and sickness.
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Intercollegiate basketball preview from 1916 Metzger notes
The article surveys Cornell Dartmouth and Columbia basketball status for the season. It lists returning players and new hopefuls like Ortner Flock Allen Ward Houck Conklin Winship Craterville for Cornell and notes Dartmouth’s coaching change with J Pelletier and players Ray Steenrod Sisson plus prospects from the football rotation. Columbia hires C J Herner and highlights Captain Wilbur Healey Leonard Roberts Latour Forever Baxter Newan Gordon among newcomers.
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Cornell
Ortner
Flock
Dr.Sharpe
Allen
Ward
Houck
Conklin
Winship
Craterville
Dartmouth
Red” Louden
J. Pelletier
Ray
Steenrod
Sisson
Aishton
Cannel
Youngstrom
Columbia
Fisher
C. J Herner
Iowa State
Springfield Y.M. C. A
Kansas State
Wilbur
Healey
Leonard
Roberts
Latour
Baxter
Newan
Gordon
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Rousch’s
Napperville Woolen Mills
G.'C. Hughes
Prop
Hanover
Ireland