Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playing without the services of R. W. Turner '28 and J. P. Crosby '28, center and halfback on last year's team, who are barred because of failure to meet their modern language requirements, the Harvard team will have a gruelling test today against the Covenanters...
...American methods of admission are, of course, of different types. The college examination board given much the same sort of test as do the Scottish universities. The certificate system as I have said, is already being used For the psychological and intelligence we have no parallel. In Great Britain the intelligence tests were scrapped along with the other products of the war, and we have no great faith in their reliability...
After a week's work under the new coaching regime headed by Arnold Horween '20, the gridiron aspirants are rapidly hardening into shape and are scheduled to get their first test of scrimmage today or tomorrow. The customary morning work-out has been called off today ostensibly to give the players an opportunity to rest up for a more strenuous session this afternoon. All practice is being held behind the high board fences on Soldiers Field, which were erected for the first time last year...
...Crimson prospects will undergo a serious test Saturday when J. P. Crosby '28, star back of the 1925 team, and R. W. Turner '28, who held down the center position in the scoreless tie game with Yale last year, take language examinations which they must pass to remain off probation. The loss of either of these men through scholastic difficulties will be a serious blow to the University hopes. The outcome is expected to be known by next Wednesday...
...Havana, one Angel Arango pleaded and pleaded with air pilots to take him aloft. He wanted to step off the wing of a plane and drop into the Gulf of Mexico from an altitude sufficient to test a combination parachute and buoyant belt he had invented. Pilots old and pilots young refused to budge. To them the device did not look practical. Last week, however, Senor Arango found his man, clambered joyfully into a cockpit, waved goodbye to watching thousands, crept out on the plane's wing tip at 3,000 feet, stepped backwards into empty air. The parachute...