The first IQ test was created between 1905 and 1908 and revised in 1916 ( the Stanford – Binet Intelligence Scales ).

1908 champion Danny Carroll, a player-coach at Stanford at the time, was the team's most prominent member.

Early among them were two redwood framed " double houses " for Stanford University in 1908, and the only fraternity house they designed de novo, the Beta Chi Chapter House of Sigma Nu in 1910 ( razed by the University in 1991 despite student and alumni efforts to give it historic designation and restore it ).

* 1908 – Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.

In an article in the Columbia Law Review in 1908, Roscoe Pound of the University of Chicago mounted a vigorous attack on " mechanical jurisprudence ," the judicial practice of " rigorous logical deduction from predetermined conceptions in disregard of ... the actual facts.

In 1908 Hans Geiger, under the supervision of Ernest Rutherford at the Victoria University of Manchester ( now the University of Manchester ), developed an experimental technique for detecting alpha particles that would later be used in the Geiger-muller tube.

* 1908 – The University of the Philippines is established.

James Madison University ( also known as JMU, Madison, or James Madison ) is a public coeducational research university located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, U. S. Founded in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, the university has undergone four name changes before settling with James Madison University.

Founded in 1908 as a women's college, James Madison University was established by the Virginia General Assembly.

By 1894, Dewey had joined Tufts, with whom he would later write Ethics ( 1908 ), at the recently founded University of Chicago and invited Mead and Angell to follow him, the four men forming the basis of the so-called " Chicago group " of psychology.

In 1908 Bloomfield moved to the University of Chicago where he took courses in German and Indo-European philology with Frances A.

The joint venture saw a chance of promotion, and the club applied for admission to the more prestigious VFL in 1908, but Richmond and University were admitted instead.

* James Joseph Walsh, The Popes and Science ; the History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time, Fordam University Press, 1908, reprinted 2003, Kessinger Publishing.

William Chandler Bagley taught in elementary schools before becoming a professor of education at the University of Illinois, where he served as the Director of the School of Education from 1908 until 1917.

* 1908 – University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, is founded.

The opening in 1915 of the University of British Columbia, established by Act of Legislature in 1908, obliged the College to suspend operations in higher education in Victoria.

University of British Columbia was created in 1908.

In 1908 Sir Oliver Lodge, Principal of Birmingham University, wrote to his counterpart at Bristol, welcoming a new university worthy of:

In 1907 he became associate professor and in 1908 full professor of mathematics at the University of Chernivtsi ( Russian Черновцы ), Ukraine.

In 1908 he joined the OUOTC ( Oxford University Officer Training Corps ), undergoing a two-year training course.

In 1908, the Graduate School of Business Administration ( GSBA ) at Harvard University was established ; it offered the world's first MBA program, with a faculty of 15 plus 33 regular students and 47 special students.

With his career prospects in Britain in serious difficulty, Jones sought refuge in Canada in 1908, taking up teaching duties in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Toronto ( from 1911, as Associate Professor of Psychiatry ).

Starting in 1908, while a professor at the University of Chicago, Millikan worked on an oil-drop experiment in which he measured the charge on a single electron.

Umami was not properly identified until 1908 by Kikunae Ikeda, a professor of the Tokyo Imperial University.

Her mother received a doctorate in ophthalmology at the University of Berlin in 1908 and became the first female physician in Lithuania, while her father had received his medical degree from the University of Tartu in 1910.

* 1908 – SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.

For example, the British Army formally adopted a completely new design of cavalry sword in 1908, almost the last change in British Army weapons before the outbreak of the war.

When Siam adopted a gold exchange standard in 1908, this left only China and Hong Kong on the silver standard.

In 1905 the German Army adopted a shortened ( 370mm or 14. 6-inch ) bayonet, the Seitengewehr 98 / 06 for engineer and pioneer troops, and in 1908, a short rifle as well, the Karabiner Model 1898AZ, which was produced in limited quantities for the cavalry, artillery, and other specialist troops.

On May 29, 1908, the United States Congress authorized the United States Secretary of the Interior to allot Lehmann, as an adopted member of the Comanche nation, one hundred and sixty acres of Oklahoma land, near Grandfield.

The German Baptist Brethren suffered a major division in the early 1880s, creating three wings: traditionalists such as the Old German Baptist Brethren, progressives led by The Brethren Church, and the conservatives, who adopted the name Church of the Brethren in 1908.

The coat of arms as adopted in 1908 has a sable ( black ) field, but today it is most often seen as shown at the top of this page.

On July 9, 1853 the village officially adopted the name Purcellville and on March 14, 1908 the Town was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly.

In 1908, after the Young Turk revolution, he adopted the pen name Gökalp (" sky hero "), which he retained for the rest of his life.

The concept was initially considered in 1908, when the idea of adopting the Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World was voted upon by the New South Wales Trade Union Congress, and the first concrete step toward one big union was adopted in 1912.

Born into an upper-middle class family, Gómez de la Serna refused to follow his father into law or politics and soon adopted the marginal lifestyle of a bohemian bourgeois artist, finding his literary feet in the journal Prometeo, which, funded by his indulgent father between 1908 and 1912, introduced into Spain a whiff of scandal from the likes of Oscar Wilde, Remy de Gourmont and Marinetti.

The largest body continued as German Baptist Brethren until 1908, when they adopted the title Church of the Brethren.

In 1908, two years after David Taylor had left the business, the name " Waitrose " ( a portmanteau of the remaining founders ' names ) was adopted.

In 1908, Edmonds-Metzel adopted the American Flyer brand name for the trains, and by 1910, Edmonds-Metzel was out of the hardware business and changed its name to American Flyer Manufacturing Company.

In 1908, Erik Salomonsen became Erik Homburger and in 1911 he was officially adopted by his stepfather.

The flag of Nicaragua was officially adopted on August 27, 1971 ( first adopted on September 4, 1908 ).

At the height of his power, Simeon adopted the title of tsar (" emperor "), as did the Bulgarian rulers after the country became officially independent in 1908.

As late as September 1908, Crosby wrote patriotic poems for the Daughters of the American Revolution, including " The State We Honor ", that extolled the virtues of her adopted state of Connecticut.

) Their original " Red Stockings " nickname lives on in three ways: in the Boston Red Sox of the American League, who adopted it in 1908 after the National Leaguers had given up their red trim briefly ; in the Cincinnati Reds of the National League, who reclaimed their city's old nickname in the 1880s during their days in the then-major American Association ; and in the perennial red trim that the Braves wear in their uniforms.

The club adopted the name " Red Sox " in 1908 after their intra-city rivals temporarily dropped the red trim from their uniforms.

The Boston Red Sox, established in 1901, adopted their version of the old nickname in 1908.

The United States Army adopted the Navy single-base formulation in 1908 and began manufacture at Picatinny Arsenal.

In 1908, the University of Oklahoma adopted " Sooners " as the nickname of its football team, after having first tried " Rough Riders " and " Boomers ".