Word: tested
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Stoud, of Tufts, holds the college record for strength test, having a total strength of 2552 pounds...
...text, "Set your affections on things above, not on things of the earth," taken from the third chapter of the Epistle to the Colossians. Everyone, he said, has before him the choice of what he shall do and how he shall do it. How he chooses is the best test of the man. Here in a University we are constantly called upon to choose between pleasure and duty, and even in our work we must always be choosing what sort of things we shall do. Here are many things set before us and most of them good things. Shall...
...tests of reaction time and quickness in sparring made by Dr. Fitz last year in the physiological laboratory will be continued this year. In addition to these, a "Visual location apparatus for testing manual quickness and accuracy" has been devised. The machine consists of a moving carriage which is placed in different positions behind a screen. The screen is suddenly dropped and the subject strikes as quickly and accurately as possible a white spot in the centre of the carriage. The time from the dropping of the screen to the hitting of the dot is measured in hundredths of seconds...
...material lies, that they may make their plans accordingly. In the second place men who have never done anything in general athletics but who feel themselves physically suited for any of the events must put aside their shyness and at least give the trainers a chance to test them, for very often excellent runners and jumpers are developed from material previously unknown. In the third place, and most important of all, there is the greatest need of men for the heavy work with the hammer and shot. Last year Harvard only entered one man for these events in the Mott...
...something comparable to a "draught horse." Nothing need be said in answer to this but that the best physiques, as shown by Dr. Sargent's charts and as admitted by sensible men everywhere, are not necessarily those of enormous bulk and huge muscle. Symmetry, not size, is the test. The writer repeatedly confounds gymnastic work with the work of athletic contests and includes the former in his attack upon the latter. He makes the very popular mistake of seeing no middle ground in physical exercise, or if he sees middle ground he denies that it is recognized here at Harvard...