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...feet. To get there it took three different plunges-first to a depth of 50 feet, then a shifting of ballast, a plunge to 110 feet, another ballast-adjustment, and then a final plunge to 220 feet, at which level the underwater boat traveled successfully some seven miles. This test run constituted a record for official submarine navigation and was accounted as a feather in the V-2's periscope...
...qualified for the finals on March 19 and 20 when they took second to Yale in the New England division. Although Harvard has been defeated by both Yale and Columbia, it has a strong team this year and hopes to turn the tables on its rivals in the final test...
...examinations are to test not only the student's knowledge of facts and events, but also his understanding of their relative meanings and his interpretations of their importance...
...other hand, did present a case. Now, this discrepancy need not necessarily have been difficult to resolve. Had the governing council of the Harvard-Princeton-Yale triangle frankly declared not alone that it courted humor, but also that humor, or its absence, was to be the chief test of victory or defeat, the decision might very easily have been given--and given in favor of Yale. The council, however, has agreed upon no such instruction. It seems clear in its own mind that it desires to introduce laughter into debate, but it is not yet convinced that it desires debating...
...them. We have here, for instance, in the files of the School of Business Administration applications for candidates to fill business positions more than we can supply. Executives who have applied to us for such candidates mean to start the men they hire at small salaries. Not to test their knowledge, because all question concerning that has been satisfied upon a basis of grades, but to test their qualities of ingenuity and industry, of stamina and adaptability. A university graduate may feel that he has a right to expect of his university that it equip him to step at once...