It has been discovered that college professors do rather worse than college freshmen when subjected to the quizzes lately employed as tests of intelligence. This does not prove the illiteracy of college professors. It merely demonstrates how futile is the quiz method of determining intellectual ability.

It is easy to find men with freak memories who in a few days could be ready to answer all the questions propounded by Mr. Edison and answer them accurately. The born chess player can carny in his mind the positions of all the pieces in a dozen or more games; but he would have considerable trouble filling out an income tax blank.

It is highly important for a man to know his own business in detail and to have a general knowledge of what is going on in the world and of the prominent facts of history; but a professor of applied psychology would gain little by memorizing the names of the slate capitals or in being able to tell how long the reign of Tiglath Piloser endured.

A quiz upon a subject that a student has lately studied is a useful test of his attention and of his ability to concentrate; but asking all manner of men all manner of questions in which they have but the slightest interest is a worthless method of detecting their ability or capacity to discharge their duties. The New York Tribune