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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1946)
Lowdown on Pilot Training Revealed by UO Alumnus Dr. Lloyd Humphreys, U of O graduate and newly appointed as iToeiate professor of psychology at the University of Washington, spoke to the Research Symposium last Tuesday on tests given to as piring pilots, bombardiers, and navigators. Dr. Humphreys stated that re liable tests for pilots and naviga tors have been developed, but as for testing bombardiers, little progress has been made. Would-be pilots, who are examined for speedy, accurate perceptions and on motor skills, need a score of 100 or more on the army general classification test, indicating that a man of little education may be come a good, pilot, he said. Navi gators are given the standardized college ability tests. He explained that a battery of three short tests by flight sur geon’s interviews administered to large groups predicted success in completing training more accurate ly, whereas the individual inter views previously given had con sumed much time. As a member of one of the three army research units which devised these various tests, he had opportunity to see the tests being constantly improved until at the end' of the war, the rate of wash outs among pilot trainees and po tential navigators had rapidly de creased. Six months after the unit’s formation, organized tests were being turned out and used, he added, also remarking that the army depends heavily on these measures in selecting men for training. Ex-Serviceman Dr. Humphreys graduated from the University of Oregon in 1935, receiving a bachelor of science de gree in psychology. He did gradu ate work at Indiana university and received his doctor’s degree from Stanford university. He also held a post-doctoral research fellowship at Yale and an anthropology fel lowship at Columbia. Dr. Humphreys, who was only recently discharged from the army, will assume his associate profes sorship at Washington this sem ester. Later he wil lserve as direc tor of the student testing personnel bureau. LOOK YOUR LOVELIEST FOR THAT HOUSE DANCE! VISIT THE V&<f,uefeeautu£al&\*i UPSTAIRS OVER SEYMOUR’S Roberta Lee Art Waters Phone 1727 LAST MINUTE SNACKS BEFORE CLOSING HOURS at the WHITE PALACE 47 East 10th Phone 172 OPEN 11 A.M. TO 2 A.M. Infirmary Crowded With Record Number Breaking all previous records for 1946, the University medical authorities announced Thursday that 6 men and 15 women were confined at the infirmary. Those under medical observation are Cecile Noren, Mildred Ander son, Lois Chitty, Janet Hicks, Sue Sullivan, Carol Pearson, Pat Por cival, Arbertha Daniels, Elaine Coleman, Mary Rafferty, Ruth Schneider, Jim Longwood, Tom Knapp, Don Breeden, Carl Strong, Barbara Pearson, Sally Johnson, Eleanor Toll, Jim Cassell, and Robert Thomas. Ducktation (C ontimicd from pac/i' two) the Alpha Chi Omega house dance and now that she's on crutches from a skiing trip, her morale is doubly low . . . Marilyn Williams, Kappa pledge from last year, ar rived on the campus for a visit this week and immediately was dated by Bob Smith, Sigma Chi, one night, Jim Lund, ATO, another night, Howard Harper, Pi Kappa Alpha, a third night, and at last reports the Fijis and three other houses were putting in their bids for Marilyn’s time. We wonder who will be on top at the end of the week . . . Another Milt Sparks item: This popular lad talked to Phyllis Brug man, Kappa, on the telephone for two hours the other night. His DU brothers finally smoked him out of the phone booth by slipping pieces of paper under the door and setting fire to them . . . G. Duncan Wimpress, SPE, was a “good boy” at the Kappa dessert. He spent the complete hour teaching the KKG tsong-leader the new Sigma Phi Epsilon sweetheart song. Hazel Roalte, Alpha Phi, still swears ‘true to navy man Bill Shumaker, but forgets him on weekends . . . Paul Everett, Kappa Sig, is phoning the wrong Alpha Phi for dates these days. He should contact Jean Merrifield . . . Phi Delt pledge Walt Kirsch is hitting it heavy with Chi O Joy Hamm . . . Overseas and no letters for two months, that’s what Pi Phi Mim Becke has had to put up with from her man. Things picked up, how ever, last Wednesday when a sultry orchid arrived by wire . . . Boh Hill, associate editor of the Ore gana, displayed his ability as a cook Sunday when he helped Alpha Gam Berta Reische prepare tea . . . The Chi O houseboys were quite the practical jokers the other night when they sent their new man Don Wingate, Kappa Sig, wandering around the second floor with coffee for the house-mother. The gals finally set him wise . . . Best wishes for a speedy return to health of the Theta house mother who is temporarily bed ridden . . . Gamma hall’s Roseanne Hill re turned from the Christmas holi days with a honey of a sparkler, that’s causing many “ohs” and TO KEEP UP with the LATEST and STRAIGHTEST See Carman’s for fast, Efficient Radio Repair Service Carman’s RADIO STORE 128 11th Ave East Phone 4954 “ahs.” . . . Jean and Betty Jones,. Janiee Crabtree and Kay Sauvc are j taking off for Seattle for the week-1 end; to see the scenery, they say . . . ATO Prery Erie Swanson, the rugged old man of the campus, seems to be alternating between Jean Walter**, Alpha Phi, and Betty Carlson, Kappa redhead ... A pleasant repercussion from our last\ colump was seeing Id/. Gilmore, j Gamma Php and Teil Baker, SAE, dating again ... ° This study business is pretty! heavy right now, but things are ‘ bound to change. All our agents j are on the lookout for rumor and I humor so we’ll tell you ail about it next Tuesday . . . 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