Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning to 2:58 the next afternoon-a total of 28 hr., 36 min., making about 2,300 miles. Their faces badly wind-bitten, the crew . had been so deafened by the roar of engines they could hardly hear the eager greetings when they landed. They had completed the test for the Honolulu trip...
With the first track meet of the season which will test the University runners as a team looming up only a day away, Coach Farrell is putting his track and field candidates through a week of the most strenuous training that has been held in the Stadium this season. He believes that the meet with M. I. T. on Saturday will be far from a practice affair for the Crimson. M. I. T. was badly beaten by Princeton last week but its showing against the Tigers revealed some individual athletes who should furnish stiff competition. The most formidable of these...
What exactly did these Pacific manoeuvres demonstrate? To be sure, they were educational for all participants, against the value of which, however, must be balanced the expenditure of several millions of dollars. The navy and army both had a splendid outing, some experience in testing theories, and, despite the feeling aroused by the contest, unanimous pleasure in conducting the sham manoeuvres. The significance of aviation in modern warfare may have been brought out more emphatically than before, but surely this disclosure is searcely so new that it needs a whole fleet to test...
...guide and help him in his work. It is this corps of experienced teachers that President Lowell describes as "carrying out the conception that the unit, the only true unit, in education is not the course, but the student himself." Without the tutorial system general examinations are but a test of knowledge acquired during a frenzied year or even half year of haphazard cramming of a multitude of facts and general conceptions...
...acquiring that knowledge. The general examination is a test not of the student's memory of more facts but of his ability to explain and correlate facts...