Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seek out the Thane of Devon, to bring back word whether the Thane's daughter is really as fair as tradition would have her. On All Hallows' Eve the ambassador beholds the beauty stealing timidly over the moor, her path lighted by a single torch, to test the superstition that thus a maiden may catch a magical glimpse of her future husband. The torchlight falls upon the messenger. He, then, is the man. But the royal will is stern. So runs the plot of the opera. The music, more important to the success of the whole, is being...
...test being read-aloud-able-ness, this last is only natural, but it is also quite necessary. Now that Dean Briggs is gone, "Copey" is the last of a vanished style in Harvard professors, in professors anywhere, for that matter. He himself is Dickensian, with his piercing glance to identify a caller or passerby, his two bachelor rooms in the garret of old Hollis, his quick replies which from a less amiable nature might be crabbed but from him seem wry and sprightly, and his remark in the introduction to his anthology: "As for Christmas...
Charles Watson '27 of Yale will captain the invading team, composed of the three top-rank players from each University. In order to choose these men, a series of test matches will be played during the spring, and the play in the matches will also be considered. An innovation this year is the eligibility of Freshmen for positions on the team. Reports from Yale announce that there are several 1930 players who are pressing the regulars to maintain their ranking...
...Crimson goes into the match deadlocked with the B. A. A. for the lead in the series. The latter team will face a stiff test this afternoon when it meets the Cambridge Squash Racquets Club, made up of recent Harvard graduates. The Cambridge team has already played and won two of its matches. If the University team wins all its matches this afternoon, it will have a decided advantage over the B. A. A. teams, which it will meet next week...
...annual K. of C. meet in Boston will be the first to test the University track men, who will run in most of the important meets of the Eastern indoor season...