Word: testing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...desired to get as many records of quickness as possible to test the question how far quickness may be trained. Students who will sign at the gymnasium for a convenient time will have appointment cards sent to them. Those who are boxing and fencing - either as beginners or experts are especially desired-also those entered for the Mott Haven Team in events for which there is a starting signal...
...menace alike of small dog and "mucker," such unbird like fearlessness had never before been seen. They sat on the snow under the trees just back of University Hall, eating the seeds that had fallen, permitted the curiours to approach within a yard or two without manifesting the slig test timidity. "What makes them so tame?" everyone asked...
There are three ways in which the question can be settled. The winners of the Harvard-Yale and Oxford-Cambridge races could race together merely to test the relative abilities of those four colleges. This would probably be popularly known as a contest for the world's championship though such a claim would be manifestly unjust to Cornell if allowed. But if the proposed contest should come off at all it is far more likely that the English Crew, the Cornell crew and the winner of the Harvard-Yale contest will row in a triangular race. A third...
...some of the benefits of church attendance to the large class of persons who are habitually nonchurch-goers, who cannot be induced to enter a church, though they will attend religious services if held in a place with which they are familiar. The services have been very successful. The test of their success has been necessarily one of numbers, for, as the limits of the work preclude parish relations, the chief indication that persons have been reached must be the fact that they attend. Each year the class has been materially the same - respectable tradesmen, mechanics and shop-women...
...present, but Eddy seems to be the only man heavy enough for a permanent position in the boat. Eighteen men answered the call of Captain Briggs this afternoon, of these, nearly all are very light and inexperienced, though some good men are among the number, notably Cockrell, whose strength test is the highest in college, Hitch, Peele, and Capen. Lambert and Murchie last year's substitutes are likely to till vacancies, if any occur...