Word: pass
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...building for bathing purposes if the University would provide an engineer to look after the boilers. To be sure, the University is not responsible for the strike of the steam-fitters who have been at work in the Gymnasium, but things have come to a pretty pass if the cleanliness of Harvard students is to be subject to the dictates of a walking delegate...
Yesterday morning the Committee on the Admission of Students held a meeting to pass on the results of the fall examinations for admission to the College. A similar meeting was held for the night before. The results of these two meetings, giving the number of students admitted by examination to both departments of the University, were made known yesterday afternoon. The figures do not include "dropped freshmen"; on the other hand a small fraction of the students admitted will not appear in the catalogue list of the freshman class. The figures cannot be accepted as showing the exact size...
...class of ninety-five, you are gathered here this afternoon to catch some fire from off this altar and to carry it with you through life. In a few days you will pass out the college gate and, with happy memories of Harvard in the background, your thoughts will be intent on the future. I might try to strike the several notes of the prophet: I could tell you from the lives of some of my own college mates of how God's judgments fall upon those that seek unrighteousness, - the sermon caught from a few unhappy and cursed lives...
...Riedesel Ave., Cambridge.$1,000 premium and one year's apprenticeship. Upon these terms an established daily newspaper, conducted by a university man, is willing to receive into its editorial department five graduates of '95 who can pass a satisfactory examination as to their journalistic qualifications. Address, Brevier, P. O. box 1417 New York...
...harmless selfishness alone were involved in this hiding of books, it might be allowed to pass unnoticed; but the injury it does to the mass of the students is too great to be passively endured. It seems that some decided effort should be made to detect the offenders and make them pay a heavy penalty for their dishonorable abuse of privilege. Students should themselves report any cases that came to their notice to the Library officials Men in whom so little confidence can be placed, are hardly to be reached in any other way than through their fear of severe...