Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both Tiger and Blue crews have lost to the strong M. I. T. lightweights, who are now waiting for their final test with the Crimson next Saturday. The University's chances for success against Tech and in the American Henley a week later seem to depend on the ability of the 150-pounders to distance their rivals this afternoon...
...Within the week, they are to meet their faculty advisor in conference and the faculty ensemble at tea; they are to discuss the question "why are you here?" and to hear old grads expound the college spirit and sing college songs. Besides, they are expected to take a psychological test during the week and to undergo a medical examination. Although the program has the advantage, now universally acclaimed, of familiarizing the student with his teachers at the very beginning of his college career, it nevertheless, in the form proposed, appears so compact a performance as to be confusing...
...Test. An exhibit showed the high accuracy of a Russian test for determining, from a drop of blood or sap, an organism's sex. In nearly every case, the female was chemically more active than the male...
...Texas. Poring over a draftboard has made him near-sighted ; he wears a pince-nez. He dresses dapperly; has a manner at once alert and suave. All his work, like his face, possesses a balanced, grave handsomeness: it meets all demands with that superb adequacy which is the aptest test of architecture, an art in which inspiration must yield to practicability. An architect who was always inspired would be a failure. On one of those great occasions when Cass Gilbert was inspired, he saw a tower lift, in his mind, its pale indomitable pinnacle so beautifully that generations must inquire...
Evincing a lack of steadiness in their first test of the season, the second and third Freshman crews trailed Huntington across the finish line yesterday afternoon by one quarter of a length and a length and a half respectively...