ANGELL, DODDS, BUTLER FAVOR APTITUDE TESTS

Presidents Angell, Dodds, and Butler of Yale, Princeton, and Columbia issued statements last night expressing their complete agreement with and confidence in the new examinations which all Freshmen scholarship applicants at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia will have to take, starting this spring.

President Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia, said in part. "The new step forward in the administration of higher education--just announced by the College Entrance Examination Board is highly significant. Few mattes are of more significance at the moment than the selection of those students who on grounds of fitness and personality are to be preferred in choosing those for whom the college can make provision."

President Harold W. Dodds, of Princeton, in announcing that his college would cooperate in the plan, stressed the time which would be saved in awarding scholarships to new men and remarked that "successful operation of the new plan of the College Entrance Examination Board will help towards an improved basis of scholarship awards to Freshmen, one of the present-day problems in college administration.

Saying that "Yale is happy to associate herself with a group of sister institutions," President James Rowland Angell commented that young men of unequivocal intellectual promise "should have made available to them, no matter in what part of the country they may be living, the opportunity for training at one of our great historic seats of learning is a matter of distinct national importance, for only as genuine talent is discovered and cultivated can we properly capitalize our human resources, only thus can we make progress out of the intellectual mediocrity which characterizes so much of our education.