Word: tested
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...blessings, instead of bewailing those which are not given. We are inclined to believe that the English department, especially owing to the changes in the new pamphlet, is now one of the most efficient in the college, and that its increasing popularity may be presumed to be a good test of this efficiency...
...contest to the future. The opinions of Marshall, which followed the formation of the Constitution, were all in favor of according the power to Congress. Later on, Webster and Story agreed with Marshall. The court in its last case has given us a decision that will stand the test of time. The United States government is to have all powers which other governments possess, unless such powers are forbidden by the Constitution...
Edison thinks that ball playing at night is practicable by placing the lights below the surface of the ground and using reflectors. A test will be made at the Staten Island grounds during the coming summer...
...much the strength of the men, nor the style they row in, nor they way they jump. It is whether they have got themselves into that condition by long and regular repetition of this same stroke or jump that is going to tell in the test case. Whatever may be said to the contrary it is undoubtedly true that university teams, in the present condition of college athletics, have a regular business before them. There is no pleasure in playing a championship game of foot-ball with Yale College. And, perhaps, there is still less in rowing a race...
...direct appreciable value to an editor, Harvard prescribes no study even in the freshman year which is not calculated to make the student of service on a newspaper staff. Any Harvard student who thinks he has a taste for newspaper work is given plenty of chances to test his abilities and to find out whether he really has the 'nose for news.' Aside from the opportunities offered to write for city papers, the DAILY CRIMSON, the 'Advocate,' 'Lampoon' and 'Harvard Monthly' open for him useful fields for practice...