Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1917 — ENTER PUPILS LESS THAN 5 [ARTICLE]

ENTER PUPILS LESS THAN 5

Children May Go to Nebraska Schools If They Pass Mentality Tests. Omaha—The Binet-Slmon scientific mentality tests .will be used henceforth upon all children whose parents wont them to enter school before they Jiave reached the age limit of five years. Tests will be given by nerve specialists of the University of Nebraska. Under this test a child who is four years old, or even younger, hut who can pass a five-year-old mental examination, will be admitted to schools. One of the tests consists of having a child put a set of blocks together. In another be will be nsketj to repeat sentences until they are so long lie cannot repeat them, such as “I went down town." “1 went down town to bn.v something,” “Yesterday I went down town to buy something and came home.”