Word: pass
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University runs were scored in the second inning. After Johnson had walked Perkins and hit McLeod, singles by Frothingham and Knowles brought these two men across the plate. Johnson then gave one more pass, which filled the bases, and another base on balls forced in Frothingham. Three more runs were scored when Waterman, the Maine first baseman muffed a wild throw from third base...
...interest in scholarship at Harvard. The general examination is a much more adequate gauge of a man's knowledge of his subject than a series of tests at the end of each course. The latter are specific and detailed; a student may cram his head full of facts and pass them, but promptly forget all he has learned. College does not aim to inculcate a mass of detail which may be applied per se in after life--this is left for the technical school. The object of college is to teach a man to think; to give him a general...
...parade which is to consist of 18,000 men will take three hours to pass a given point and, as it is scheduled to start at 1 o'clock, should march for at least five hours before the last of the column reaches the dispersing place...
...passed when the colleges could lay down entrance requirements unquestioned; high schools have taken the aggressive, and show a growing tendency to try to dictate the terms on which they will furnish their product. But it is to be hoped they will not try to break down the colleges' qualitative standards not to force acceptance even of preparation of good quality in improper subjects. President Lowell points out that the existing "diversity of admission requirements and curricula" is great, and "gives the boy a chance to go to the institution where he will get the maximum education of which...
...rating for which he is trained, starting as a sailor at $55 a month and board. After two years of sea experience, he may enter a United States Shipping Board School in navigation, to fit himself for an officer's license. In three years more, he can pass through all three grades as mate--third, second, and first, in order--and his next step in promotion is to the command of a ship...