Word: pass
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...educational committee of the Massachusetts Legislature, have visited the Annex to make investigations concerning the petition to change the name of that institution to Radcliffe College. They were very much pleased with everything they saw and said that the bill for the change of name was practically sure to pass as soon as the matter came up for action...
...could unite himself in marriage to the woman of his choice was discussed for a long time in England and was finally brought before the House of Lords for settlement. The discussion of the question covers eighty-five pages of the records of the House. It was decided to pass a law prohibiting any clergyman from solemnizing his own marriage. The law does not recognize in any way the right of the clergyman to bury the dead, although this is one of the more important of his duties...
...emptiness and folly. The trouble with him was that he mistook the means for the end, he regarded the temporary things of the world, such as houses and fine clothes, as all that can be found here; but Paul has found something more, something abiding forever, which cannot pass away. First he places faith. At once we are inclined to say this is not anything abiding or even anything real. Science, we say, recognizes no such thing as faith. But there we are wrong. The basis of all science is faith,- a trust in the natural laws, that as they...
...Dean Langdell of the Law School shows that the past year has been a successful one in spite of the falling off in the number of new men, which is more than accounted for by the new rule requiring every student not a graduate of a college to pass the admission examination as a condition of entering the school...
...choir sang the following selections: "It Shall Come to Pass" by Garrett; "Seek Ye the Lord," by Roberts; and "Come Ye Children," from the oratorio of "The Prodigal Son," by Sullivan...