Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ruling of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, following the test bouts with M. I. T. last year, boxing is not to be an intercollegiate sport this year. The undergraduate members of the committee stated that boxing did not lend itself to intercollegiate athletic competition, and on their recommendation the sport was confined within intramural limits...
Lawyers. Henri Torres, chief counsel for the defense, florid, bloated, dynamic, put his histrionic abilities to the test when, leaping past his colleagues into the middle of the courtroom, he brandished a revolver, produced from under his voluminous black gown. Shrieks of terror mingled with gasps met this display. Flappers sat with blanched faces; bewhiskered Hebrews rocked back and forth with supressed excitement; Ukrainians, more pallid than ever, glanced nervously through their narrow eyes. Maitre Torres, aiming at a chair, pulled the trigger?there was a dull click, followed by sighs of relief. He was attempting to prove that...
With the adoption of a "bogie" score, which gives the rating a student should attain in his college work upon the basis of his showing in his entrance examination, his school record, and the psychological test given at the beginning of freshman year, the scholastic attainments of the undergraduates are showing a marked improvement, it was announced today by President John Grier Hibben in his annual report to the Princeton Board of Trustees...
...blame, adequately represent the situation. Such a condition is inconceivable to dwellers in American cities. It is safe to say, however, that this mass of irresponsible and unsheltered children, too numerous for the orphanages of any nation to control, will serve in the next ten years as a test of the Soviet's ability. If they neither die off, nor grow up into gangs of adult criminals, but find a place in the social order, unlimited praise will be given to the government which rescues them...
...into a purpose. Modelled after the German universities, American colleges are breaking from the mould--tending not to an imitation of the English or any other type, but borrowing what seems good and inventing what seems better. The present generation of undergraduates is, so to speak serving as a test case in many laboratories; that the experimenters in their general purpose seem agreed, is a fact to give confidence to student and instructor alike...