Word: tested
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...well-known fact that the physical test required for the football team has raised the physical standard of the Freshman class during the last two years. But there are a great many men for whom neither football nor any of the other sports offer any incentive to physical development. Such men can not be allowed to go through College without a development of body, as well as of mind, and, it seems to me, one of the plans suggested by Dr. Sargent should be immediately adopted...
...present system there is absolutely no way of judging what skill any competitor has in rebuttal, since each man makes but one five minute speech in which there is usually no pretence at replication of any kind. The only attempt that has ever been made in any competion to test the candidates on rebuttal was three years ago, when a scheme was hastily formulated on the evening of the first trial by which five men were chosen. These men spoke afterwards in rebuttal against five other men, three men being then chosen. Why this plan was abandoned was never explained...
...HOCKEY TEAM.- Practice at 3 p. m. sharp on Spy Pond. The following men must take the strength test at the Gymnasium between 2 and 3 p. m. today: Beardsell, Holt, Stevens, Hardy, Clement, Hoxie, Ewer, Runell, Baldwin, Matteson...
...first a physical examination would be required from every student upon entrance, and every year afterwards until that of graduation. This would leave all exercise optional, but would hold over each student the requirement of an improved condition from year to year, to be determined by actual test...
...death an untimely one, and yet, is it not as true today as it was nineteen hundred years ago, in the time of Him whose birthday we have just celebrated, that it is the quality of a man's life and not the quantity which is the only true test of earthly life? It seems to me, as I think of some of those sons of Harvard whose death in recent years we regret so much, Greenhalge and Russell, Phillips Brooks, and Charles Eliot of my own class, and of football fame our friend Newell, William H. Manning...