Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experiment is entirely new at Harvard. The end in view is not to make the examination a test of the 24-hour memory, but to give the members of the course a chance to show that they have critical ability and that they know where to look for information and how to apply...
...band of earnest Englishmen ventured across the Atlantic to test the quality of the New World atmosphere. They liked it well enough to stay and to invite their friends to join them. Since that date it has been the fashion for prominent Englishmen to come, at least once in a lifetime, to pass judgment on America. England has never been able to forget that America is "new". As this is actually the case, one can hardly blame her for reflecting, like the Stoics, that youth is "the time of passion, when wisdom is not attainable." And when Mr. Zangwill charges...
After two weeks of inaction the University quintet will meet Syracuse University this evening at 8 o'clock at Hemenway-Gymnasium. With the possible exception of the Columbia fray, tonight's contest should prove to be the most severe test thus far this year...
...test of this proposed compulsory consolidation program will come when the decision has to be made as to who will get the New Haven, the Great Western or the Western Maryland...
Such was the creed that made of Woodrow Wilson's public career a consistent whole. Such is the test which he would have had us apply to the success or failure of that career...