Page Six Bv JAMES HEBSON 3. . ‘ ' ,. A University of Texas mathematics class was recently dismissed 1n the middle of the class hour because aswarm of bats invaded the lecture hall. 0 As soon as they act the athletes o f the gridiron they begin putting coaches on the pmz.~—Indianol University Daily Student. —o-— University of California scientists have just completed a schedule of hahies’ crying habits during the early months of their lives. ”.0.— More than 20,000 balloons were released at the opening kick-oi? of the Minnesota—Michigan football fracas, -0... Pennsylvania State college students consume 100,000 spoonsful of ice cream in one meal, according to a recent survey conducted on that earn. pus. __o_ 0] 315 women who recently passed .tesls for policewomcn in New York City, 261 hold college degrees and four are the owners of Phi Beta Kaza- ptt keys. #0... The Rockefeller foundation has made a grant of 18 million dollars to American universities for the pur— pose of bringing government em- ployccs of Latin-American republics to the United States so that they may study our form of government. A 3,000 acre forest is the class-i, room for the Utah State Agriculturall college's summer course in forcslry‘. _0_‘ A freshman coed at Kansas Statel last year was granted the PhD. de-i grcc ai'tcr attending that university only one year, the shortest period on; the record. The reason, the Daily, Klingon recently explained, was that- “she married her professor.” E l education. i i ——-o-— Dr. Malcom H. Heel), Dnhc um? wrong physicist, has invented a pal- nroid headlight which will entirely, eliminate glare and. reduce traffic ac— i ciklcnts at night. i l i l _.0_.s Sixteen members of the Northwest- f ern university football team are ac-i complishcd swing musicians. Head- l ing the list are halfbacks Bernie ch— l ferson and Jack Ryan, a pair of mean 1 trumpeters. l __0__ Alabama State college students have been looking high and low for minsing candidates in a recent cam- pus election. it is believed that the unfortunate student politicians were kidnapped by opponents who were afraid of probable defeat. 1 —o—— Gifts to the University of Chicagol during the last nine years have to-I talcd $52,000,000. ‘ l __os_ The new women’s piled-n11 hair- dresses took a beating last week when ‘ the editor of the Wommw, Sonthernl California’s humor magazine, swirl: “scrnbvwomcn have been doing it for“, years.” __0__ ‘ One art student at least doesn’t agree with the idea that an artist should live in a garret, knee deep in poverty. So he capitalizes on his tal-l out by working in a local beauty pawl l l 101-. _0_ Members of the New York univer- sity senior class voted nnanimouslyl‘ to support Mayor LaGuardia for‘ president if he is a candidate for‘ that office in 1940. l “0... ”An apple a day keeps the doctor} away” is not good enough for Great, Britain these days, according to the} campus newspaper at the University‘ of Kansas. The student editor has; changed the motto to “A country al day keeps Herr Hitler away.” i ”0‘ 5 Paul Whilcinoln recently returned; from Canada with the news that the} French word for “Jitterbug” is “in—l secte dc jazz.” 1 —o——— ‘ A new curriculum in Ohio State, university’s college of engineeringi leading to a degree in welding engiJl nearing was inaugurated this fall. l _,0__ A $93,000 cyclotro‘ K, the atom, smashing apparatus used in research" work in nuclear physio ' stalled at McGill univer. . sists of a kind of merry-go—round, with hydrogen and helium particles swirling speedily so that they pene‘ trate into the nucleus of an atom and shake it up. ——0— Traces of a continent, lost for 100,- 000,000 years, have been discovered in Mexico by two professors from the University of Michigan. The area disappeared when it was buried by an ancient sea that divided North and South America. mg_ The last “men only” tradition was broken on the Iowa State College campus when Margaret W. Sloss re- ceived the degree of Doctor of Vcteri» nary Medicine. l ARMOUR TECH NEWS Stoopb‘ruin Enters Movie éiontesi and Ushering Rocket; Gets in Feminine Mess By ART HANSEN Deer Sally, Happy Applewit, who lost the orig“ inal browne and yellow bassket and beet arowncd the mulberry bush till hea fownod it, sed the other day, quote—the newest danze rage is a combination of the Big Apple and the Strip Tease. It is cawled “The Big Apple Peeling,” unquote. Dew yew no wot a movie quiz kon- test in, deer mountin flour? We], their iz won being konducted now fore a first prize of $50,000.00() and I am a sinch tow win it. The questions iz so darn eazy, like in the picture—— Love Bites Andy Softy," oh, a grate picture starring- lckie Loonie and Lewis Bone. The question iz-What does Andy Softy want best beside ate bucks and a car, (1) ate bucks, (2) a brunette, (3) ate bucks, (4) a blond, (5) ate bucks, 6) a rodhed. The anzer of course iz a blonettehed and ate bucks. Then, in the picture “Alex- hamburger’s Ragtime Rand” starring Falice Raye and Juan Ametchoo, the question iz—“Wat iz the title song 01' this picture: (1) ‘Benny’s Jazz- timc Band’, (2) ‘It’s A Long, Long Way tow the Alter, But A Shorter Way To Reno’, (3) ‘Tanks for the Axelgreese', (4) ‘Silvcr Treads Among the Gold—Hiya, Silver!’, and (5) ‘Alex’s Bagtimc Rand!” I clearly pick “Silver Treads Among the Gold” because it clearly haz a connection bctwoan the first prize and mea. Wel, the boy’s our mixing it up (and down) again. However, that uncouth sin of removal of britches or depantsing i7. know longer present (or iz it'll The boys owr now moar lenient on each other. Abowt awl they Wlhc Mend that cant he copied hav dun so far iz throw paving bricks at each other, or grovcl won another tew grease spots in the dust. I saw won fcllcr swing another arownd in the aim and bat hiz hed aginst the brilt wow]. It must hav ban a :Crosh’s hcd (density 299.009), bekause the feller pulled his lied owt of the wawl, dusted the brik frum biz hare, and continued (P.S.—-the wawl colap- and a few howrs later). However, it la a annuawl afar-e, and except tour a few lawns, wawls, britches, sewer covers and botlcs of arnica, no dam-- age iz dun. Each Sattiday I usher at the Chi foothawl games, and altho there teem izn’t so hot, the coeds are. (Whoo— Whoool After saying a few hundred times, “ch, sir, rowe 108, only a few hundred more yards up tew yowr sect . . . Yes, lady, second ramp, first door, east end . . . no, sir, your ticket in fore the other stand across the feald . . .", etc., I pick sum bewtiful coed and sit beside her wen the game starts. Quickly gating down tow buo- inez, I ask itew sea her ticket and say Shea in in the rung: seet, but that 'I wil fix it up withe the had gun. Then I introduces myself oz Halfway Bat~ tlebrain, Yarvard, ’38. Then I tel her abowt the 155 yard run I maid aginat narmy in ’37, and how I threw a 150 yard boomerang pass in the Pri‘nccmouth game to deceive the en» emy, 50 yards toward my goal, whence it would cut sharply back to» ward their goal and go 100 yards down the length of the fcelcl, and by that tymc I wuld boa at their goal line and catch it tew. Yures, Stocpbrain Bliss. the mom conciliation of the world’s hear cigarette whereas Copyright 1953, niacin-r Sc Mrnrs Tomato ()0. EQUCATIDNAL TESTS—- (Continuod from page five) attempt to find out, if any of the tests or combinations of them will predict how long a student will stay at the Institute. Another investiga- tion is to see how closely grades can be predicted from the educational tests. Both of these problems are long time problems and only a little has been learned in the last few years. What has been learned how— ever has been of great value. Recently the department has been intensively engaged in the very in- teresting problem of investigating the scholarship examinations to assist the professors who make up the ex. animations. It has been found that there are some questions that practi— cally every applicant can answer, others that very few can. What is, however, of more importance is that there are questions which almost inw variably pick out students of prom~ ise from those who are not so likely to make a success of their academic work. That is to say, there are questions of moderate difficulty that differentiate decisively between the students who are gifted, and those who are not, whereas other questions of the some degree of difficulty do not seem to be able to distinguish be— tween the two groups. Just why this is so, is still somewhat of' a mys- tery. The question frequently has been asked “Is this yearls class better than last year’s class?” The answer to that question should be of partic- ular interest to engineering students, because it brings up the question of the yard stick by which better or worse is measured. First one must Tuesday. November 8, 1938 idetermine what is being~ measured and then what the unit of measure is. A person cannot say that one object is three inches hotter than another, Although them might be instances where length could be interpreted as merit. This is done by the length of 1! thread of mercury in a thermome— ter. When such a comparison is made, the unit of measurement must be known, and the three inches must be interpreted in terms of units under- standable where heat is. considered. So the answer to the question so fre~ quen‘tly asked is, “What do you mean by being better?" “How are you go ing to measure it?” “How are you going to interpret your measure~ mom?” Even after these questions have been decided there still remains the question of probable error of measurement. If the difference in length between two objects is less than the probable error of measure- ment, then even though one seems to be longer than the other, no one can definitely say that such is the case. These are the questions which arise when one freshman class is compared with another. A state— ment that could be made is that there is a difference between the medians of class A and of class B on the reading test and that this difference significant or is not. The interpreta- tion 01' what that means is quite on- other story and it is in the interpreta- tion that many satisticians get into trouble. Up to date no difference has been found in the examinations be- tween last year’s and this year’s class which can be said, from the standpoint of mathematics, to be sta- tistically significant, although it is possible that such a difference actu- i/ZA. a '2‘ «in; (I Qflgtkfihm, ally exists. These action shots of < l‘ r “Whizzcr” White. . . famous [ill-American football star . . . Show who! it takes to be a triple threat man. .. . .. that’s the reason Chesterfield stands onl from the others The reason Chesterfield is different is because it combines the smoking qualities of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos in one cigarette. it’s the right combination oi these tobacoos .. . . mild ripe home-grown and aromatic Turkish, rolled in pure cigarette paper.o.that makes Chest— erfield a better cigarette for you to smoke . . . milder and. betterwtastind. either is sufficient to be statistically ’ l l