Word: teste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the Harvard-Yale tennis team, which will face the combined Oxford-Cambridge netmen early in August were definitely announced yesterday following a test match between L. H. Gordon '27 and Arthur in-graham Jr. '30 to determine the third Harvard match. The final choice of Harvard-Yale players for the English invasion is as follows: J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, L. H. Gordon '27, and M. I. Hill '30, of Harvard, and Watson, McGlinn, and Reed of Yale...
...worth? This question, however, can seldom be answered in the lifetime of the worker and still less frequently in that of the creative artist, it being an attribute of genius to be ahead of its own day and generation. Assuming that the chief works of Beethoven have stood the test of time, have retained their power to quicken and to exalt, and waiving the aspersions of those extremists who consider Beethoven "vieux jeu"--his achievements soon to be engulfed in the rising tide of "modernity"--let us indulge in, some reflections as to the reasons for the unshaken hold...
This Constitution does, however, in spite of the fallacies which to the observer appear sufficiently perilous to condone its partial rejection, serve as a test case for the whole theory of student government. Heretofore in most colleges the Student Council has been a pretty toy, an honorary roll of prominent undergraduates, the efficiency of which is subjugated to its glory. If adopted at Princeton and enforced with the rigidity which in its present form it seems to demand, the system will cease to be only symbolical of student cooperation and will be in reality a vital factor in the daily...
Today's match will be the last test match for Harvard before the Crimson poloists entrain on the Westchester Biltmore...
...Whiskey Test. To the University of Cincinnati came 300 volunteers who drank good whiskey and then let their alcoholized breaths pass through a solution of 50% sulphuric acid containing a trace (1/3%) of potassium dichromate. This solution is ordinarily reddish yellow; alcohol vapor makes it change to a bluish green. The more whiskey the Cincinnati bibbers swallowed and the more drunk they became, the more bluish green became the solution. There is so definite a relation between degree of intoxication and the sulphuric acid-potassium dichromate tint, that Cincinnati judges have used its evidence in arrests for driving motor cars...