Word: pass
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first examinations under the new tutorial system in the Department of History, Government and Economics come soon after the recess. There is still too prevalent among undergraduates the false notion that if they pass their sixteen courses with the correct proportion of C's and D's, their degreees will not be denied them. Yet the failure to pass the special examination is as serious as failure to pass the required number of courses...
...America Passes By" a missionary's daughter and a young man, thrown together in Tokio where they see scarcely any of their own race, have become lovers. When the play begins they are visiting friends of the young man, a newly-married couple in Chicago. Here they find their relation to each other rapidly and fatally changing. To the quiet, religious young girl Chicago is a brutal nightmare; to the coarser-grained young man it is gloriously American, "the voice of the great old century we live in." To her his friends, their host and hostess, are vulgar and almost...
...Langdell founded the case system at the Law School about half a century ago and built up the school's reputation and instruction, there has been a large growth of law schools throughout the country. Some of them spring up, like mushrooms, over night, and merely cram men to pass bar examinations. Others are bona fide legal institutions, wielding considerable influence in making the law the technical and social profession which it should be. But with all this growth of other institutions--most of them using the Langdell system--the University Law School has grown in strength and reputation...
Making a living is the test of a man's right to live; and when the family pursestring is withdrawn, it becomes a cruelly hard test to pass. When ambulance service, aviation, and military camps occupy one's thought, there is little time to consider so routine a subject as work...
...pass the entrance examinations to the College can, with reasonable effort, proceed to his degree. This incident, which weakens at least two University teams, may be of some benefit in waking men up to the need of assuming some responsibility for the work of their fellows. It is not necessary to call attention to the culpability of men who, such as these three athletes, have not the character to save themselves; but it is necessary to state that their friends and classmates share the blame with them. Perhaps a policy of making public the names of men on probation would...