Word: strength
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...intend to try for the team must take the strength test today at the Gymnasium between 2 and 3 o'clock...
...games will be held next. Monday afternoon in the Stadium. Men intending to compete should sign the blue book at the Locker Building before next Wednesday. All candidates for the track team are expected to enter, but no man will be permitted to compete who has not taken a strength test. Strength tests, must be taken today, and those who took them last fall or last winter must obtain cards from Dr. Sargent...
Since he was fourteen years old Mr. Gompers has been identified with efforts to organize labor, believing that in unity working men can treat with their employers on a more equal basis. He is responsible more than any one other man for the present strength of labor unions in this country. He is a cigar maker by trade, and was one of the founders of the American Federation of Labor, of which he has been president, with the exception of one year, since 1882. Mr. Gompers is also the author of a number of pamphlets on the labor question...
...blue book has been placed in the Locker Building for entries in the handicap games which will be held on Monday, May 1. All candidates for the team are expected to enter and should do so before Wednesday, April 26. Men who have not yet taken strength tests must do so today, and those who took them last fall or last winter must obtain cards from Dr. Sargent...
...strength of the Princeton team lay in the consistency and flawlessness of its argument, due to the care with which it had prepared its speeches. The Harvard speeches, on the other hand, attempted a bolder attack, and seemed more mature in their delivery. The best speaking of the evening was done by R. B. Fosdick of Princeton. Of the Harvard debaters B. V. Kanaley spoke with great fluency and wit, and A. Tulin with commendable power. Princeton's essential argument emphasized the necessity of the development of the individual for his particular career, while Harvard claimed that a student...