Word: testing
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Twenty universities and colleges will be represented in the intercollegiate strength test championships which will be held during next spring. Last year, Harvard made the highest average of fifty tests and also won the individual test, C. G. Herbert '00 making 1594.5, which stands at present as the intercollegiate record. Of the twenty-one Harvard men who were among the first fifty of the seven colleges represented, seventeen have returned to College and will be eligible to compete next spring. Among the other colleges, Columbia was second last year, and Amherst third. The second best individual score was 1352.5, made...
...shows by figures for the past six years that co-education in the College proper has not increased, that it has in fact decreased, and that the danger of complete co-education at Harvard exists no more today than it has in previous years. Professor Byerly dismisses as a test the admission of Radcliffe students in the Graduate School. He admits the second point raised by Professor Wendell: the professors lecture at Radcliffe for salaries when they might be doing research work, but says: "If Professor Wendell has discovered a method by which his colleagues can publish the results...
...between three crews from the Weld and two from the Newell Boat Clubs will be rowed this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The course will be down stream a mile and a half, with the finish at the Union Boat Club. The race will be very important as a test both of the rowing material in the Freshman class, and of the relative merits of the two strokes taught at the Weld and at the Newell. A larger proportion of the men than ever has rowed at their preparatory schools. The drawing for positions gives the first Weld the outside...
...seats for the Yale game my sympathies are entirely with the undergraduates' point of view. I do not mean that I wish to complain of those who have charge of the distribution of tickets this year, because we must realize that their methods have been put to a test far beyond precedent; and however regretable, it is perhaps not surprising that they should have found themselves overpowered in consequence. But the principle which gives graduates the preference over undergraduates in the right to seats seems tome both unfair and impolitic, and I for one should be glad...
...Harvard Christian Association. A Test of True Living (Matt. vii. 15-23; xxv. 34-40). Mr. H. H. Morse. Phillips Brooks House, 2d floor, east...