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...meet this week. Entries for the interclass track games may be made in the blue books at the Locker Building on Soldiers Field or at Leavitt and Peirce's up to 6 o'clock on Monday, April 29. No man can enter who has not taken a strength test...
Highest Strength Test on Record...
...Leslie '12 has made the highest strength test on record in the Hemenway Gymnasium under the new system which was established in 1904. His total number of points was 1513.2, an increase of 210 over the sum made by F. D. Huntington '12 during the first half year, and an increase of 304 over his own previous record of the first half of the year...
...examination on which (in part) the Scholarship is assigned is so arranged as to test power, not information, and to call for no preparation. In the examination room, a list of ten or a dozen subjects is given; and each candidate is expected to write, on the spot, an essay on one of these subjects, and on one only. The subjects are selected from the fields of Economics, Government, and Modern History. Any student who has taken advanced courses in these fields will find among the subjects at least one which has been brought to his attention. On the basis...
...found that the private school men were in every way superior physically to public school men. In average height and weight, which are taken in the mass as a fair indication of potential strength and energy, the private school men were markedly superior. Furthermore, the ordinary method of "strength test" revealed the same results. Considering the medium tests, we find that the public school man registered on the average 630 points, while the private school man secured a total of 700. Thus it is obvious from these examinations that when considering the physical side of education, the preparatory school...