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...Sargent has invited the Yale athletic association to enter three men in a strength test to be held in Cambridge between representatives of leading colleges...
Ninety students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working in shifts of thirty each, helped to test the new 21,000,000-gallon pump at the Chestnut Hill pumping station Wednesday. The first crew went on at eight o'clock in the morning and stayed until five in the afternoon; then they were relieved by a crew which stayed until after midnight, when the last shift went on until morning. Most of them were stationed in the engine room, where every part of the engine and boilers was thoroughly tested. Readings were taken from all the gauges every fifteen minutes...
...nine, and its consequent defeat by weaker teams is discouraging, students should remember that the surest way to overcome it is by their own show of interest in baseball. The zeal of the nine will be in proportion to the interest which the University feels in them; and the test of this lies in attendance at the games, and not in adverse criticism. The University has a right to demand much of the nine; but disappointment and a certain measure of disgust must not make it forget the right of a representative nine to hearty support...
What we do need most of all is a clear and definite conception of human character; a revelation of ideal life which shall have the stamp of authority. We want the manhood that will bear the test of the universe and that shall make uslive to make our fellow men wiser and better. We must find somewhere and somehow an infinite companionship...
...entire education of many boys between the ages of fourteen and eighteen is devoted not to the acquirement of lasting and valuable knowledge such as is the necessary foundation for any great intellectual achievement, but to the superficial mastery of subjects so as to be able to stand test questions, the nature of which is known beforehand. Not real learning, but the passing of a college examination, is the goal of study. So true is this, that often familiarity with previous examination papers is the chief strength of a candidate's preparation, while of working familiarity with his subject...