Word: tested
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course, will always keep to the straight-away race system, which is a better test, perhaps, of the relative merits of four or five crews which may race at one time; but under the conditions at Oxford - a narrow river and fifteen or sixteen competing crews - nothing better could be devised than the bumping races which have been rowed for so many years...
BEFORE opening the subscription for plank walks two weeks ago, the Crimson endeavored to learn whether the Corporation would receive it. As no definite answer could be obtained, the matter was put to a test by placing the book at Sever's on Friday...
...order to put the question of plank walks in the Yard to a test, we have to-day placed a subscription-book at Sever's. It will remain there for two weeks, unless a sufficient amount is subscribed before that time. All who have had reason to complain of the shameful condition of the walks so far - and who has not? - are urged to subscribe at once, and in order to save the trouble and delay of collecting subscriptions, to pay when they put down their names. The money will be returned in case the subscription fails. It is useless...