Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Virginia is the Vanguard of the coming struggle that is to put to the test our institutions and our ideals. The story of the last five months of armed uprising and counter uprising with the result that 1800 men are now being tried for murder and treason is well known...
...education is the one means of developing intelligence and intelligence is the logical basis of all suffrage. President Cutten claims that democracy is a delusion in that general suffrage is the "greatest and most popular failure." He sees a solution only in some practical form of an intelligence test for every voter...
...unpopular. Millions of citizens would take it as an intolerable personal grievance and an infringement of their rights to be excluded from voting because they thought Henry Ford invented the cotton gin, or that "daylight savings" was a kind of bank. Also it is doubtful whether any fair intelligence test for voters could be devised...
...result of the tournament which has been held this week among the players on team C and the three most promising substitutes, R. C. Bostwick '23 has won the right to play E. K. Davis '24 for his position as number five on team B. This test match, which is to be held today, will determine the only uncertain position in the line-up of team B for its opening match. The other test matches this week have produced two changes: J. J. Glessner '25 defeated Harrison Gardner '24 and has taken his position, while R. P. Rose...
...will never permit of coercion as its ultimate solution. The recent injunction against the railroad strikers was a monumental piece of folly, for which payment must inevitably be made. It was far too sweeping in its character--so sweeping in fact that it was never put to the test. It remains an unwieldy weapon held over the heads of workers whom it has only embittered where it was meant to subdue...