Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...qualified for the finals on March 19 and 20 when they took second to Yale in the New England division. Although Harvard has been defeated by both Yale and Columbia, it has a strong team this year and hopes to turn the tables on its rivals in the final test...
...Harvard has now placed itself, upon the lengthening list of colleges that require something more than the test of a written examination. Its reputation for snobbishness has never been altogether just. Admittedly its system of undergraduate clubs is unduly favorable to men from the fashionable preparatory schools; but the policy of the Faculty has been steadily democratic. Since the Civil War negroes of ability have been welcomed--with the result that Southern white students have preferred other institutions. Latterly President Lowell has resisted pressure from graduates who deprecate the increasing proportion of Jewish students; he has insisted upon full recognition...
...other hand, did present a case. Now, this discrepancy need not necessarily have been difficult to resolve. Had the governing council of the Harvard-Princeton-Yale triangle frankly declared not alone that it courted humor, but also that humor, or its absence, was to be the chief test of victory or defeat, the decision might very easily have been given--and given in favor of Yale. The council, however, has agreed upon no such instruction. It seems clear in its own mind that it desires to introduce laughter into debate, but it is not yet convinced that it desires debating...
...them. We have here, for instance, in the files of the School of Business Administration applications for candidates to fill business positions more than we can supply. Executives who have applied to us for such candidates mean to start the men they hire at small salaries. Not to test their knowledge, because all question concerning that has been satisfied upon a basis of grades, but to test their qualities of ingenuity and industry, of stamina and adaptability. A university graduate may feel that he has a right to expect of his university that it equip him to step at once...
Next, when Chief Pilot Carl Ben Eielson stepped into the Alaskan's cockpit and signaled "Contact!" for a test flight, the craft bucked and plunged, struggled amain with roaring cylinders, but could not rise from the clinging snowfield. Overhead there was perfect flying weather, bright and clear. Eielson ripped the throttle wide open. The Alaskan roared forward, kicking up a small blizzard, and at last crept clear and aloft?only, when she landed after a brisk spin, to crash into a buried wire fence at the end of the field, smashing her propeller, landing gear and fuselage. No Pole flight...