Word: tested
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard College will be widely scattered over the country, some to their work, others to their vacation. All alike share one important duty to the College. Wherever they go, and whatever they do, each has his part of the responsibility for maintaining the good name of Harvard. The test of the worth of a college is ultimately the men whom it sends out into the world. If they are worthy, the credit is given to their Alma Mater; and the blame for their shortcomings falls on her as well. Popular judgment of Harvard is not based on the testimony...
Candidates for the University crew and football team, and weight throwers will be expected to make a total strength test of 700 points. Candidates for the class crews and football teams, and gymnastic, wrestling and sparring contests will be expected to make a total strength test of 600 points. Candidates for the University and class baseball nines and lacrosse team, and track and field events, will be expected to make a total strength test of 500 points...
These points will be 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 in 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 the parallel bars and pulling his weight up to his chin on the rings. Where the strength test falls below the desired standard the capacity of lungs will...
Students who may not desire to enter as competitors in any of the athletic contests will, upon request, after passing a similar examination and making a similar test, be granted a certificate of condition equivalent to that given to the candidates of the various athletic teams...
...team race, although quite interesting, was not a test of the merits of the two teams, for Harvard did not enter any first class runners with the possible exception of Lakin, while Yale had their best quarter mile men. Harvard might easily have won the race if Bingham or Hollister had run in the last relay. The first two men for Yale gained a lead of about fifteen yards but Lakin overcame this and finished some distance ahead...