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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1948)
Answer Gadget Grades Quizzes in Seconds > xuc ^invciLy uuunseiing cen ter now has a machine which knows ail the answers. But don’t get any ideas about borrowing it. Six men were required to help car ry it up to the second floor of Em eral hall where the center is lo cated. This electrical test-scoring ma chine was used this fall to grade placement examinations of entering students, and will be used in the fu ture for tests given by the counsel ing center and mor mid-term and final examinations, said J. Spencer Carlson, director of the counseling center. By means of electrical currents, the scoring machine adds right an swers and subtracts wrong ones, registering the score in a matter of Johnny Learns (Continued from page six) Johnny, gave him the inevitable speech. It began in best popular . novel form: ‘This is the hardest thing I will probably ever be called upon to do, John, but we feel—I feel, that is—that it would be better if we thought things over and didn't go steady any more. After all, I mean, one of the most broadening aspects of col lege life is the variety of pople one is able to meet. Ancl we can still be very good friends, you know.” Johnny didn’t say much, for there was not much to say. After he took Joan home he went up to the graveyard and sat on a tomb : stone to think in the damp night air. In the next three weeks he felt that he had died a thousand deaths.” But he evidently had a thousand and one lives, for he is still kicking around here. You’ve probably met him. He looks quite normal. seconds. Erasures must be carefully made. Electrically-treated lead must be used for marking- the an swer sheet in order to complete the current and register the answer. Papers from other schools and testing centers will also be scored here, Mr. Carlson reported, and the machine will greatly speed up the general testing program. The only other machine of its kind in the state is located at the testing cen ter in Corvallis. Wesley Players To Meet Tonight First meeting of the Wesley Players, Wesley House dramatics group, will be held this evening be tween 6 and 7 ;p.m., as announced by director Ken Neal. Plans will be made for several productions during the coming months. These will be staged at various locations on the campus proper and at the Methodist church downtown. All students interested, particu larly those new to the campus, are urged to attend the meeting tonight at Wesley House, 1347 Onyx street. Odell Still 111 (Continued from page four) be hospitalized until a complete cure of his nephritic condition has been established. His progress along these lines continues to be satisfactory.” With Odell out of the coaching picture in the Husky’s first tilt this Saturday, the Washington team will take the field under the direc tion of line coach Reg Root who has been handling the squad in the absence of Odell. Veteran Frosh Gel Free Exams Freshmen and new students who entered the University under the GI bill this term are eligible for reimbursement of the cost of pre registration physical examinations, J. D. Kline, assistant registrar, stated yesterday. Student-veterans should bring to the registrar’s office a receipted bill from the physician who gave the examination and the veteran will be certified for immediate pay ment from the cashier. The University will then collect from the veterans administration, according to the assistant registrar. Today's Emerald Staff City Editors Bob Gohrko Dick Humphreys Night Staff Francis Lowry Joan Gorlinski Dave Buffam John Koaney Nancy Wright Margie Tuggle Edith Kading Copy Desk: Spike Metzler Nancy Wright Barbara Ebeling Victor Fryer Virginia Bond Barbara Alderman Progressive Meet Young progressives will meet next Wednesday in the YMCA for their first organizational meeting, according to Roy Stauffer, tempo rary chairman of the group. Y Advisory Board To Hold Luncheon The advisory board of the YWCA will be host Thursday noon to members of the student cabinet and junior advisers with a salad luncheon, according to Laura Ol son, president of the Y. The regu lar meeting of the advisory board will precede the luncheon at 11 a.m. Plans for the campus member ship drive, the freshman program and improvements in the Y bunga low will be discussed. An inch of gold will never buy an inch of time. Phi Theta Named Margaret Wickenden, junior in general art, was tapped for Phi Theta Upsilon, junior women’s ser vice honorary, last night during dinner at the Alpha Omicron Pi house of which she is a member. Miss Wickenden, who is from Ber keley, Cal., was registration chair man for Junior Weekend, and co chairman of registration for A.W. S. weekend last year. Iowa scored 103 points against the University of Chicago in a bas ketball game in 1944. 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