Word: pass
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...choir sang, "All That God May Give to Thee," Richter; "It Shall Come to Pass," Garrett; and "I will Lay Me Down," Brown...
...charging an admission fee, but all such criticism seems to us absurd. It has been claimed that people will not go to the debate if they have to pay an admission fee. To this we can only say that if it is true, things have come to a sad pass. Ten dollars is not too much to pay for a football contest, and it is ridiculous to suppose that people will be unwilling to pay twenty-five cents for the more serious contest in argument. In the choice of judges excellent wisdom has been shown and the character...
...writer is evidently absolutely ignorant of the rule that no man can begin a career on any athletic team till he has passed a physical examination by the proper authorities. In the article the writer says, "One would presume that before a young man was allowed to pursue the difficult and perilous occupation of a record breaker, the proper authorities would ascertain whether he was constituted for such trying and critical work." Then the writer gives an awful picture of "the best all-round athlete that ever graduated from the Heminway Gymnasium," who "fell dead on the Harvard campus from...
Very soon the men who have neglected their college work will be forced by the nearness of the mid-year examinations to resort to some means for acquiring sufficient knowledge to pass the test and the usual business of seminars and tutoring will be in full blast. It is pertinent just at this time, befor the trouble has actually begun, to consider these seminars and to see whether they are not assuming dangerous proportions...
...wilfully neglects his work he shows himself out of harmony with the institution and anything which encourages him in this neglect must be an evil. Moreover, the price charged for seminars is so high that, even were they a good thing, they could not help a poor man to pass an examination. Some of the prices charged suggest a monopoly on knowledge which is ridiculous. The arguments against the system are too many to name...