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...strength test competition will not be held this year until late in spring, when all the athletes will be in good condition...
...arrangement has been made at Cornell by which the stroke of the crew men can be tested. It is a steam indicator from the laboratory of Sibley college and arranged by simple devices to work under somewhat changed conditions. The indicator is placed in position on the rowing machine and connected with the oar handles by a cord, the record being marked on a chart, as in the case of a steam engine test. It is possible to determine the length of each man's stroke, how strong an oar he pulls. and at what point of the stroke...
...think of war: Nation LXI, p. 458 (Dec. 26, 1895).- (2) General appeal to bellicose feeling: Senator Walcott in Cong. Rec. p. 976 (Jan. 22, 1896).- (b) Tends to pervert standards of national honor and greatness.- (1) Insistance on immediate forcible resistance to "anything like an insult," as a test of national honor: C. E. Norton in Forum XX, p. 649-651 (Feb. 1896); Wm. James in Cong. Rec. p. 461 (Dec. 31, 1895); Nation, LXI, pp. 420-421 (Dec. 12, 1895); and ibid...
Among the members of the Assay Commission, appointed by President Cleveland, to test and examine the weight and the fineness of the coins reserved at the mints is Professor Jackson...
...before it might be forced by these circumstances. The question which the mid-year examinations bring up is not necessarily that of whether the examinations themselves are a good thing or not, though their abolishment would of course solve the whole difficulty at once. Admitting that a mid-year test is valuable in every course, a few queries suggest themselves. Does the benefit gained by preparing for an examination make up for the loss of eight lectures and, in the case of those who get through with their examination early in the period, a week's study, more or less...