Word: testing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...generally contemplated when college men are urged to go into politics, but just as sure as watching the quarterback or left end will lose the football championship, so watching the mayor or comptroller or alderman will continue the evils of American municipal government. Just as in football, too, the test of the player is what he is able to do with the ball and with his team, so the test of the college man in politics is the extent to which he can advance the interests of his constituents; their interests, like the ball, are objective, countable, visible, watchable things...
...William H. Van Allen, rector of the Church of the Advent, Boston, will give this evening the second of his series of St. Paul's Society conferences on "The Faith Once For All Delivered." He will speak on "The Test of the Faith" in the Noble Room of Phillips Brooks House at 7.15 o'clock, and the address will be preceded by evening prayer at 7 o'clock...
...Faith Once For All Delivered." The talk this evening will be at 7.15 o'clock, and will be preceded by evening prayer at 7 o'clock. "The Catholic Faith" is the subject for tonight. The remaining conferences of the series will be as follows: January 15--"The Test of the Faith"; January 22--"The Safeguards of the Faith...
...passing and team play. This was followed by a 30-minute scrimmage between two provisional teams in which neither side scored owing to the roughness of the ice, which made passing and shooting very difficult. The work of the defense was good though it was not given a thorough test...
...bridge it is the duty of the former commission to superintend its erection, while the strengthening of the old bridge would come under the department of the latter commission. The result of this division of responsibility is that nothing definite has been done, further than to test the strength of the old bridge, and thus insure the safety of the crowds who will witness the Harvard-Yale game on Saturday...