Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This recount conducted by the Crimson is in no sense official or final; it is merely a test count for the purpose of showing that there is no need of a new election and that the inaccurate report of the results given out by the Junior Polling Committee Wednesday was the result entirely of carelessness and the use of an inefficient system of counting and tabulating returns. As a result of the Crimson's recount the Student Council will meet today and consider the need for a new election. They will also conduct an official recount of the ballots...
Innovations at the Union have grown to be so frequent that most of them no longer excite comment. But to-day a test is put on "Harvard indifference" that will be hard to face, without flinching. Even the most callous must blanch at the thought--the Union is installing a system of push-buttons and bell-hops...
...sectional title is Boston College, which although it has had few hard games this season, showed its power by defeating Yale 21 to 13. At any rate it is the only eleven in the East which has not been tied. However, because it has had only one real test of strength, it is not yet rated on a par with the other above-mentioned elevens. Its next three games will tell their fortunes for the year. Marietta, coached by "Greasy" Neale of the Cincinnati Reds, comes to Boston Saturday much as did Valparaiso--a "mystery team" that has turned aside...
...more acute. The Moscow Government this winter faces trials more severe than the menace of an isolated attacking army. Famine, poverty, discontent--these will have to be met and remedied. The success or failure of Lenine depends now, not on armies, but on economics. The winter will bring the test...
Today the great test begins. After the routine work has been completed, the Dantzig and the Polish-Lithuanian affairs will be discussed. Arrangements for the coming financial conference will be made. But what is paramount is the fact that numerous recommendations for amendments of the covenant will be considered. Most of these have been made by the smaller nations who desire to limit the power of the council and to give more to the assembly. Insomuch as the large nations control the council, they wish to concentrate the power of the League here. Thus a dispute looms up between...