Show I I MENTAL MENT At TESTS TO BE STUDIED TOBY BY UTAH MEN Logan College Sends for System Used at Columbia University Herald Special Logan May ay 2 The Tho Utah Agricultural Agricultural tural college has made arrangements to obtain from Columbia University New York the complete equipment I necessary for applying tho the ps caly tests use used by the United States Slates army to determine the mental capacity of or men applying for commissions These tests as modified b by Columbia aro are designed to test a student students ability to carry college e work and replace c entrance examinations and other entrance re reQuirements re- re The college e will stud study these tests to determine their practicability Jf Jt the they give promise e of oC success they ma may be adopted to supplement or even replace the present system l If this plan Is adopted It will do away with or at nt least modi modify f the old way of or requiring so man many high school credits for tor entrance The Tho te tests ts do not show the extent of et a 11 mans man's education but the they reveal roveal his In Intellectual capac- capac it ty The Tho entire movement Is the tho result of ot made mado by tho the noted psychologists psychologists PS- PS Professor ProCessor Thorndyke of ot Columbia Co- Co lumbia university who nho was responsible for Columbia's using the tho tests in place of entrance requirements this year ear and Major Yerkes es formerly of the University Uni Uni- ty of Minnesota and Harvard who adopted and worked out the tests in Inthe inthe the tho United States arm army Acc According to Professor ProCessor of ot the education department of ot the tho college e the problem of or psychological tests Involves a very big field for or research in PS- PS More time timo Is being devoted to o It at present than to an any other otner branch ranch of the science Professor Doe Boc- 14 oy has used the tho tests in his classes |