Taking a definite step forward in the educational field, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia will require all candidates for Freshman scholarships to take modern scholastic aptitude and scholastic achievement tests, starting this spring.

Given April 24

These new examinations, designed to test the general skill and intellectual promise of all students, will be given by the College Entrance Examination Board in 150 centers scattered throughout the United States on April 24. Applicants for all Harvard first-year awards will be required to take these exams, including all Harvard National Fellowship applicants. Individual Harvard Club awards, however, will be given out separately by the different Clubs throughout the country, although the Clubs may require their candidates to take the exams.

The purpose of this innovation, which is to be tried as an experiment for at least a two year period, is to enable the scholarship committees of the participating universities to sift and classify their scholarship candidates at an earlier date than has been possible before. This will allow the College to make their decision in May or June, instead of August, and those who miss an award will thus have time to make alternate plans.

The I. Q. rating of students gotten from these tests will not be used exclusively in making awards; material usually gathered will be taken into account as much as before.

Two Exams

Two exams will be given: in the morning a scholastic aptitude test consisting of an oral quiz and a written math exam; in the afternoon a scholastic achievement test which covers literature, languages, History, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences, with some options being being given.

This new plan, it is believed, was suggested by Harvard in the first instance. Other Colleges are invited to use the service provided, and besides Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania will be use the exams this spring.

It is hoped that on the basis of this service ways and means will be found of reaching the brilliant student at all high schools, no matter how remote. Thus the plan, will fundamentally, extend the principle already put into practice by the Harvard National Scholarships through which it is hoped to bring the leading minds of the country to Cambridge