Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McGill, not being a member of the intercollegiate winter sports union, was not concerned in the score, though ardently it competed with the others. Contestants webbed their feet with snowshoes, raced a 150-yard snowshoe dash; they laced long runners to their feet and maneuvered before judges (ski proficiency test) ; they shot down a steep bank on skis and into the air from a great steel thank-you-ma'am. Other events were: fancy figure skating, 3-mile snow-shoe cross-country race...
...rotorship Buckau, first of its kind, set sail from Danzig for Leith, Scotland, with a cargo of lumber. The voyage is to be the first commercial test of this new type of wind-propelled ship. Its trip from Kiel to Danzig to take on cargo was productive of conflicting reports: some said the Buckau went by her wind; some, by means of her auxiliary engine...
...meet Dartmouth also in the relay, but owing to a misunderstanding, the Green runners will not compete. Williams defeated Bowdoin, the conquerors of Yale, at Portland Monday night when Foster, Bowdoin anchor, lost his footing after gaining a commanding lead. Coach Farrell welcomes the race as a good test for the team in preparation for the triangular meet with Dartmouth and Cornell on February...
Captain Durham's from with foils had been one of the features of the early season practice. The veteran of last year's Yale match has been a consistent winner in the practice test matches by which Coach Danguy has been judging his men this winter...
...with college life. Then there is the man who feels the old, old urge of writing, and needs the stimulus of a competition to keep the flame burning steadily. And finally there is the undergraduate who is eager to apply the knowledge he has been absorbing, who wishes to test his powers of handling the multitudinous facts he has been patiently learning, who is prepared for a searching examination of his own powers of judgment...