Edwin M. Davidson '45, of Adams House and New York, was the highest scorer among Harvard students taking the United States Armed Forces Institute examinations given late last month, Assistant Dean Henry S. Dyer '28 announced yesterday.

In reporting the winners Dean Dyer said that all top scores were comfortably above the 99th percentile of the sample of college students throughout the country on whom the tests were originally standardized.

In three of the four tests, several men lied for first prize. Timothy P. Miller '48, J. Arthur Greenwood '47, and Warner B. Berthoff of the V-12 attained the top scores in the Test of Correctness and Effectiveness of Expression. Sole winner of the Test of Reading of Literary Materials was F. E. Williams '47.

Hersh Wins Twice

Four examines--Charles C. Williams 47, S. E. Matison ocC, Bradford G. Murphy '46, and Reuben P. Hersh '47--tied in the number one spot on the Test of Reading Materials in the Social Studies. Another quadruple tie resulted in the Test of Reading Materials in the Natural Sciences, with the following men in first place: Harry T. Miles, Jr. '47, Jerome J. Newman '47, Reuben P. Hersh '47--the only double-winner--and grand-prize-winner Davidson.

As Dean Hanford promised in announcing the series, prizes will be awarded to high scorers. For being highest scorer on all four tests combined, Davidson will receive forty dollars in books or cash; the fifteen dollar prizes for highest scores on the individual tests will presumably be divided among the tied winners.

Individual Reports Mailed

Individual reports, and with each report a memorandum explaining how scores are to be interpreted, will be in the mall in a few days, said Dean Dyer, The memorandum confirms a previously-published report that the Harvard group attained score averages placing it between the 75th and 80th percentiles.