Word: test
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Seldom has the seating capacity of Appleton Chapel been put to a greater test than at the opening service last night...
...college has some cause for complaint that the choice is seemingly arbitrary. We are perfectly sure that the committee is far from desiring to adopt any high-handed methods; and their good intentions are shown by the fact that, in spite of the announcement of last week, several test matches will be played...
...Corporation would have to advance the money for this building, and it stands ready to do so, though it feels that a more determined effort should be made to supply the increased demand with the present accommodations. President Eliot, especially, felt that the Dining Association should at least test the hotel system at Memorial by an experiment...
...just at present it is very pleasant for us to reflect occasionally that we are not altogether without students who can manage large interests well. A few years ago the general inefficiency of our student athletic managements made us doubt very gravely whether student managers were of the sligh test use to the college...
...second function is distinctly more complicated than the previous one, yet it is no less a test of a university's activity. Johns Hopkins was the first university to begin this thing and probably saw in it the means of making itself better known. From this beginning others have sprung until our own university publishes no less than eight papers, covering every variety of scientific and literary research...