Word: test
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...these teams did not meet in the days of their freshman baseball, it gave them the first chance to test their comparative powers...
...TOWNER, Leader.LACROSSE. - All candidates must meet every morning at Memorial at 8 o'clock and must be on the field at 4 sharp. During Tuesday and Wednesday all the men must be tested for quickness, etc., by Dr. Fitz. The men may report at the Physiological Laboratory in the Lawrence Scientific School any time during the day. Each test will take about ten minutes...
...Sargent has invited the Yale athletic association to enter three men in a strength test to be held in Cambridge between representatives of leading colleges...
Ninety students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working in shifts of thirty each, helped to test the new 21,000,000-gallon pump at the Chestnut Hill pumping station Wednesday. The first crew went on at eight o'clock in the morning and stayed until five in the afternoon; then they were relieved by a crew which stayed until after midnight, when the last shift went on until morning. Most of them were stationed in the engine room, where every part of the engine and boilers was thoroughly tested. Readings were taken from all the gauges every fifteen minutes...
...nine, and its consequent defeat by weaker teams is discouraging, students should remember that the surest way to overcome it is by their own show of interest in baseball. The zeal of the nine will be in proportion to the interest which the University feels in them; and the test of this lies in attendance at the games, and not in adverse criticism. The University has a right to demand much of the nine; but disappointment and a certain measure of disgust must not make it forget the right of a representative nine to hearty support...