Word: testings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sharp November night thinned out into a grey November dawn over rocky Utah. The broad reaches of Great Salt Lake caught up pale sunrise colors. On desolate Antelope Island in the Southeastern corner of the lake the buffalo* herd slowly bestirred itself to test the morning air. Like shaggy brown mounds they looked in the dim light, lurching up lazily from sleep: here three cows and their calves in a grassy pocket gulch; here, in the broader valley, a scattered group of yearlings and dry cows; there, proudly alone, a burly young bull; there, ponderous and patriarchal, respectfully attended...
After their two days' recuperation from the gruelling contest with the powerful Princeton team, the University regulars will resume practice in their final drive for the season's objective encounter with the Eli. The much heralded Brown eleven will furnish the last preliminary test of the Horween machine Saturday in a game which promises to be as hard as any on the Crimson schedule...
...their last game before the final test against the Yale Freshmen at New Haven next week, the Freshman gridiron warriors battled the University Seconds to a scoreless tie on the second team field yesterday. For 48 minutes the two evenly-matched teams struggled up and down the field, with neither able to pierce beyond the other's 30-yard line. Near the close of the second quarter, Coach Knox's men worked the pigskin to the Freshman 30-yard streak, and Winston tried a drop-kick that went low, was blocked by Stewart and recovered by Douglas. This...
...little-thought-of phase of the situation. He takes his stand as President of a state supported institution. A humane feeling, unselfish, philanthropic, is the first, one might say the chief and only requirement. Candidates for admission should be considered as citizens; their characters should be the test of their eligibility. "To assure ourselves, in so far as we can, that the boy or girl desiring a college education at public expense is able to show at least the fundamentals of a democratic social personality is our clear duty...
...real superiorities. . . . America is curiously indifferent to its fate. None of our newspapers has the courage to discuss . . . the Catholic question, the Negro question, the money-power question or even the liquor question. But wait until population increases to the bare subsistence level. Then America will meet her first test...