Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would test the devotion of many a sweetheart. No fiancee would get up at 4 A. M. to go a game with a man she wasn't really insane over...
...honors school is in full operation. Down in North Carolina on the rolling Piedmont soil of Durham Duke University is rising. Here in the Middle West, Antioch College has been reborn upon a plan startingly original and appealing in many ways. The University of Wisconsin gives the opportunity to test out the faith of Professor Meiklejohn in the possibility of cultural education upon a new plan. A further experiment not yet begun is the plan of a college without trustees or president and administered on liberal and democratic terms. Tentative efforts have already been made for its founding...
...belief that no more fundamental conclusion on the purposes of a liberal education can be formulated Understanding of life necessarily brings with it intellectual fitness for life, which is the ultimate test of the success or failure of an educational system. It is considered doubtful how far the college is at present fulfilling this demand. Dr. Meiklejohn says not at all. That is a dangerous generalization for it infers a uniformity in methods which does not exist. Probably there has never been a time when a greater variety of experiments were being conducted or suggested by serious men. The very...
With at least four games with strong Canadian teams on the list, this year's hockey schedule, announced yesterday by Manager Howard Slade '27, will test Coach Bigelow's squad of puck chasers to the utmost. Three of the international ice battles will be played within a week during the Christmas vacation, while a fourth date, with King's College of Nova Scotia is probable for January...
...Oscar Wilde. it is a proof of the universality of enjoyment for clever dialogue and good music to see a modern audience reveling in Gilbert and Sullivan. Lasting geniuses were scarce in the latter part of the nineteenth century--but these two would appear to have withstood the test of time. Certainly modes and manners have changed since the "Pinafore" craze of the seventies. But sweet little Buttercup remains to charm her auditors, who may have learned to like many new and bizarre entertainments but who still retain a very great love...