Word: tested
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...system adopted at the Hemenway Gymnasium. These points are reckoned as follows: The number of kilos. lifted with the back and legs straight, and the number of kilos. lifted with the legs bent, added to the strength of the grip of the right and left hands, expiratory power as tested by the manometer, and one-tenth of the weight in kilos. multiplied by the number of times that the person can raise his weight by dipping between parallel bars and pulling his weight up to his chin on the rings. Where the strength test falls below the desired standard...
This expression of the life of service is Christ's test of character, his conception of life. The greatest man is he who does his fellow-man the greatest good. Christ did not measure men by their ceremonial observances. He never once told a man to offer a sacrifice. He simply said "Go and sin no more." His one measure of character was service. He who helped are apostate was in Christ's eyes greater than he who offered the most elaborate sacrifice. Service was the touchstone which Christ applied even to His own life. He lived simply that...
...food on the prairie, the wood in the forest, all have to be made serviceable through commerce. The function of the merchant should be, not to make money, but to serve his fellows by furnishing them the necessaries of life. Every transaction is to be measured by this test. The only way in which a self-respecting man can acquire property is through his brain or his brawn. The desire to get something for nothing is in itself dishonest...
Yesterday afternoon a large number of men went down to the river to cheer the 'Varsity Crew, but unhappily were unable to see the whole crew row. This was due to the fact that Captain Bullard slightly strained his back while taking the strength test, and that Goodrich is a little over-trained. A crew of five men from the Freshman boat and the three bow men from the 'Varsity boat, however, rowed up and down in front of the boathouse. Before the men got into the boat, the students, under the leadership of J. C. Fairchild '96, heartily cheered...
...second summer season at the Castle Square Theatre bids fair to surpass the first in attracting and holding public patronage. When one considers that here are produced all the favorite operas that have stood the test of time, in the coolestand handsomest theatre in the country, by a stock company which has never been excelled in the history of comic opera, and at prices of 25 cents to 50 cents for seats, is it surprising that all Boston and its environs flock there to be entertained? The patronage is distinctly high class, as would be expected from the singing...