Word: tested
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trip which the university eleven is to make this week to Canada naturally recalls the similar tour which our team made about six years ago. In that year the Rugby rules for football playing had just been generally adopted by the colleges of America, and it was partly to test their worth that the trip was undertaken. Results showed that the Canadian teams, with their longer acquaintance with the Rugby game, were unable to compete successfully against the Harvard men. The eleven made a brilliant record during their stay in the North, and met with a most cordial reception from...
...break," making it pleasanter for those running than to allow them to scatter at will. The flyers are thus restrained and the new men and those out of perfect training are able to keep up until the hunt is nearly over. From the break homewards is a good test of a man's endurance and speed, and the many close races to the finish keep up the spirits of the men and induce them to do their best. Forty or fifty hounds are not too many to be easily managed, and the more the merrier for all engaged...
...there is but little need of reminding the college that today the first foot ball game of the season will take place on Jarvis Field, the game being with the Institute of Technology eleven. But to the eleven the game is of importance. It is to be the first test of what our men are capable of doing, and will show better than practice of a dozen afternoons, what promise there is of a good eleven this fall to play for the college championship. The players who will eventually form our eleven are not definitely fixed upon but the style...
...anyone who has ever had an examination in U. E. R. on a hot June day, it will be an unnecessary statement for us to make when we say that an examination held in that room is rather a test of physical endurance than of knowledge. But there seems to be such ignorance among those who have charge of our examinations in regard to the ventilation of this room that year by year examinations are held in it in spite of the great heat and the bad air which are its chief characteristics. We wish to publicly call attention...
...fellowships are to be persons carrying on their studies in Cambridge in the departments of philology, philosophy, history, political science, mathematics, chemistry, physics, natural history or music; but it is not necessary for an applicant to have received an academic degree or to be a candidate for one, the test of qualification being special fitness and proper training, however acquired, for the advanced work undertaken. Evidence of personal capacity and suitable preparation the applicant is required to present with his application, and for this purpose diplomas, certificates from individuals competent to judge, and work previously done...