Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1937, Page 54

FRESHMEN'S TESTS GRADED BY ROBOT 20,000 Placement Examinations Fed Into Giant Machine for Scoring. B the Associated Press. ATHENS, Ga—Rob the Robot fust has completed flawless grading nations for Georgia's university system. Rob is a mechanical professor per- fected by & national machine com- pany and educational foundations. He took the examination papers from all the schools in the university's system, absorbed them in toto and spat them back in piles along with the score. The robot works by electricity, “reading” pencil marks on standard test forms of the true-false or selec- tive question variety. During the 10 days, said. F. S. Beers, univerrity ot 20,000 freshman placement exami- | examiner, this monstes accomplished THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, work which formerly required the combined two-week efforts of some 200 persons throughout the State. Here is how the cold-hearted grad- ing machine works: The examination paper, on which the freshman has penciled his “X” mark in either a “Yes” or a “No” column, is inserfed in the machine. Elctrode blades inside Rob descend on the paper and record the position of the mark. The blade then relays an electric impulse to a recording registers the grade, By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 30.—Applause meter which adds up, calculates and | rang through League of Nations halls United States observer at Geneva, read the statement which Secretary of State Cordell Hull made in Washington re- nrdln( uuue condemnation of Jap- bombing open Chinese f,mes (The United States Government’s attitude was set forth in unmis- takable terms yesterday by Hull, Wwho repeated earlier denunciations of such military operations by the Japanese as “unwarranted and con- :nry to the principles of human- ity,”) D. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1937. U.S. STANDON JAPAN CHEERED BY LEAGUE Applause Rings Through Halls as Hull Statement on Bomb- ing Is Read. ister to Switzerland, read Hull's decla- ration at the opening public session of the committee dealing with the Sino- Japanese conflict. Cheers came from benches of the delegates and from pub- dic galleries. Francols de Tessan, France's vice minister of foreign affairs, moved that in order to establish & practical method of work a subcommittee be set up to study all questions pertaining to the Chinese situation. Resolutions would be submitted to the full committee. The Advisory Committee unani- to institute s subcommittee. Long de- bate ensued concerning the exact man- date to be given this subcommittes. METHODISTS PROTEST Urge America to Take Action Helpful to China. 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