Word: testing
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...pages. "The argument is, in brief, that it may be advantageous to encourage by legislation a branch of industry which might be profitably carried on, which is therefore sure to be carried on eventually, but whose rise is prevented for the time being by artificial or accidental causes." To test this argument Mr. Taussig proceeds "to examine how far protection . . . was actually applied and how far it was the cause, or an essential condition, of that rise of manufactures which took place." In the second chapter the industrial history of the United States from 1789 to 1838 is concisely recounted...
...recess has been profitably employed by the crews, who have spent the time in assiduous practice at the oar. The nine was prevented by bad weather from playing the two games that had been arranged and so has not yet had any chance to test its strength with rival teams. The days that gave pleasant weather were well employed by practice on the field. It is almost a month, However, before the first league game with Brown, so that there is abundant time for improvement in play, and, if the already backward season does not still further retard the progress...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The paper set the freshmen in their Trigonometry examination, Saturday, was so unusually difficult as to provoke the inquiry whether our examinations ought to be given so as to test our knowledge of the subject and familiarity with its leading principles, or of its little minute, fine points and catch questions, the acquirement of which is of no practical value and only serves to obscure its more important features. No one can for a moment doubt which view is held by all fair-minded persons and by the most of oar instructors, but the paper in Freshmen...
There has been a great deal of energy shown in the tug-of-war teams among the classes. This energy has resulted in arousing the enthusiasm of the graduates. Therefore, after great persuasion, certain members of the Law and Medical Schools have decided to test their respective merits. These men have given careful attention to strict training during the winter. The prizes will be in Bartlett's window during the coming week. The following-named compose the teams as at present selected: Law School - W. H. Cook, '80; J. S. How, '81; C. W. Andrews, '82; A. E. Lane...
...combining them with places of stars determined at other observatories. The fundamental systems referred to comprise catalogues of the principal stars which have been independently formed, for the most part from complete discussions of all the data available previous to the year 1872, and are therefore well adapted to test severely the accuracy of any series of observations, and Prof. Rogers is to be congratulated on the manner in which the observations made by him and his assistants stand the test...