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...examiner's test is considerably more difficult than the senior life saving one and persons contemplating taking it should start getting into condition now by swimming in the pool. The test consists of a quarter of a mile free style, retrieving a brick in ten feet of water without diving, swimming on the back, using the breast stroke for 100 yards, swimming the side stroke using but one arm for the same distance, and diving in racing manner...
...desire for correlating the experimentally determined heat transfer rates with these various properties of the fluid makes it necessary that these properties be determined for the fluids used in the test apparatus. Mr. Smith has therefore set up an apparatus originally designed by Professor Bridgman for determining thermal conductivity. An apparatus for measuring specific heats was set up last year by another graduate student. The laboratories already had apparatus for viscosity, specific gravity, and the like...
...changes announced by the Department of History, Government, and Economics this morning are another indication of the increasing importance which the college is placing on the tutorial system as a method of teaching and on the general examinations as the real test of a student's knowledge and intelligence. The reduction of courses and hour examinations for the entire college, as announced several weeks ago, will also have this liberalizing effect. But, while the college and the respective departments urge men to become candidates for honors and reduce formal requirements for them, the accepted criterion of a man's ability...
...Received a petition requiring 145 signatures to force a vote on bringing to the floor a resolution modifying the 18th Amendment; Wets stampeded into the House well to sign it, effect their first test of voting strength in more than a decade...
...crime he did not commit. The notorious "Bullet Number 3", responsible for the death of Parmenter, in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, was found to be grooved from a pit in the gun barrel, probably caused by rust. Such a pit was found in the gun of Sacco, and test slugs fired from it by investigators, here abrasions which a long series of tests showed to coincide with those of the murderer's bullet...