Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight, or, strictly speaking, in the wee hours of the morning, the siren on top of Widener will let loose with its unearthly moan, street lights all over Cambridge will go out, and Harvard's fourth test blackout will be under way. Defense plants will adjust their blackout shades, all night bean-cries will be darkened, and those solitary night-owls who are still up and about will have to snuff out their midnight...
...when they go to bed. Those who keep late hours must be warned again that only if a room is equipped with approved blackout shades may any light be left on. Ordinary shades are not sufficient. And no matter how beautiful the night, they must keep indoors during the test. Anyone not on official ARP business is likely to be arrested if he is found out-of-doors...
...test blackout, as those who have been here before know, is a serious business. It is called by the Army, to test our defenses against bombing raids. Harvard's record in former tests has been excellent. New students can help make this one a success, too, by remembering to turn out all lights before going to bed, keep calm when the sirens sound, keep all lights off unless they have blackout blinds, and not to go out-of-doors...
...Corps emphasizes the necessity of a revised system of testing its candidates for cadet posts, for the exam that has been used in the past was so easy that 89 out of the 90 Harvard men who took it passed with flying colors. It consisted mainly of choice questions, forcing the perplexed undergraduate to decide whether two times three equals five or seven. It is hoped that this new examination will be a fairer measure of intelligence, but whether it is used as a standard test depends mainly on the results of Monday night. Failure in it will...
...obvious in this first real test of the town's civilian defenses that its Committee on Public Safety could easily handle ten times as many casualties as it had received on the town wharf that day. Villagers were justly pleased with themselves. Said a village physician: "We did a good job. We didn't lose a single survivor-or a single first-aider." The regional director's comment on the local report sounded like Revolutionary days: "I can add no word to this. God bless the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...