Word: tested
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game today will test the advisability of making the recent change in the make-up of the Harvard nine. Robinson will again be played at third, and with this one possible exception there is little fear of another unsettlement of the infield such as was seen in the Princeton game...
...BASEBALL.- The following take the strength test today between 2 and 4: Cochrane, Whitbeck, Taylor, Hall, Jaffray, Thompson, Carleton, Nowell, Adams, Franklin, Dibblee, Jameson, Beaman, Rumery and Farr. No man can play in the class game Friday unless he has taken the strength test. All those who can, be at Soldiers at 3 o'clock; all others at four. All men named above will please meet at No. 1 Ware Hall at 1.30. Important...
Although the nine played its second errorless game in two days, the mere fact that no errors were made yesterday can not be taken as too encouraging a sign of fielding strength. All of the chances that went to the infi Iders were comparatively easy and gave no test of the strength of the nine in fielding against a heavy hitting team. In batting, moreover, the men hit with no amount of certainty, and fell into the bad rut of knocking the ball into the air instead of keeping it on the ground. Reid's three-bagger was the squarest...
...gentlemen suggest two tests-the illiteracy test and the capitation tax. The first would shut out the most desirable class of immigrants. It does not discriminate between what the man knows and what he is. The capitation tax would exclude the very desirable and useful immigrants from Ireland. It is unnecessary for us to depart from our policy of free immigration to a narrow system of common exclusion...
...closing, Rosenthal said that to remedy the evils which exist the affirmative offered several plans, any one of which would be practical. An educational test, a capitation tax, or the requirement that the immigrant be a skilled laborer, would decrease the number of undesirable immigrants who come to the United States...