Word: tested
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...task of committing the lines is long and tedious. The six or eight months drilling is a hard test on ones patience. Yet since the cast is nearly completed and men have been found to undertake the work, the members of the University can well congratulate themselves that they have before them an experience with which few are favored. There is very little reason why the Latin play should not meet with the same enthusiastic reception that was accorded the Greek play. It ought certainly to have as great an educational influence. Not that it is likely to create...
...stage for the public without undergoing the savage overhauling and distortions of unliterary managers. In other countries the works of the greatest literary geniuses are produced with great success. Theatrical managers here maintain that the public would not tolerate the plays of our literary men. To test the truth of this assertion is now the purpose of the Theatre of Art and Letters. It has made a fair beginning in New York and now with its most representative play, it is to try to show by performances in different cities that the public is sufficiently intelligent to enjoy a "literary...
...McDowel of the class of '78 is president of the organization and Barret Wendell, Bliss Carman and other Harvard men are actively interested. The experiment has been tried with success in New York and the company is now on a tour, the express purpose of which is to test whether of not the public and be interested in so called "literary plays". The first performance tonight will, to a great extent, prove the success of the venture in Boston. "The Squirrel Inn" is certainly typical of the style of play in which the company would interest the public of Boston...
...Alexander, of the Law School, has broken the record for the best strength test of students now in college. E. Cockrell '95, had the record previously. His total was 1016.6. N. D. Alexander's record is 1030, G. E. Chaney, '94, has also the best record for capacity of lungs, which is 455, while E. Klein, '95, has made a record of 80 for strength of the right forearm. There have been also several new tests made above 750. J. E. Young, L. S., has made 967.2; H. A. Gehring. '95, 854.3; C. Brewer, '93, 842.7; J. C. D. Hitch...
...induce boys to learn to write clearly and concisely, methodizing their knowledge at short notice, and to suggest to candidates obvious criticisms on their style by setting exercises in the correction of bad English. The essay, for the writing of which an hour is allowed, was meant to test the student's knowledge of the books read, and at the same time to test his ability to compose...