Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gaunt and grimy stokers, silhouetted in furnace glare, are no longer an integral part of a ship's bowels. Even coal burners can do without them. Last week members of the Fuel Conservation Committee of the U. S. Shipping Board sweated in the test furnace room of the Todd Dry Dock Co.; peered at an intricate machine which was busily pulverizing soft coal and blowing it into furnaces. Hitherto, on the experiment freighter Mercer, the coal has been pulverized in one machine, then distributed to three furnaces, but the latest improvement provides each furnace with its own pulverizer...
...Thirteen years ago Thomas Fleming Day, deep sea voyager, hung a one-cylinder Evinrude over the side of a twelve-ft. dinghy and chugged 233 nautical miles from New York to Boston to test the reliability of the newly discovered, much-criticized outboard motor. A power cruiser accompanying the dinghy broke down twice, three times. Pioneer Day completed the course. His time: 52 hrs., 47 minutes...
...divisional examinations should be largely oral, thus giving a fairer test. Many more good tutors are needed to make the Tutorial System a real success. At present there is not time for the student to get the most out of the Tutorial System, because of the regular course requirements. Tutorial work should take the place of course works and credits be given for the same. The tutor's report should be considered in granting degrees. Perhaps only 12 or even fewer courses should be required. Seniors could then be free to actually gain the most the Tutorial System...
...anything is rather more than likely to happen. He is not, however, a real Rajah; but only a "super" in a Parisian revue. He yearns for the haughty leading lady (Evelyn Brent) who keeps counts & dukes, likes to go to the zoo. She puts "Super" Menjou to her favorite test: he must enter a tiger's cage and rescue her silk gloves. Approaching the beast, he notes with pleasure that it had died the night before. He does the proper thing...
...must this new test be? Are two weeks excavation at this time as important as fair examinations to 1500 students who have only this single opportunity to show what they know, par-percent of whom will return next year? ticularly to those 700 first year men, 40 per cent of whom will return next year? Robert F. Spindell...