Word: pass
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...energy in the electric waves. This fact is particularly true at this season of the year, for at present these rays of the sun are at very nearly their greatest intensity. In the second place, this radiation also tends to defract the waves upward so that they will pass far above the comparatively low aerials of the wireless posts and thus permit no message to be noticed. This is an objection which applies more directly to the flat and more light-colored districts which would thus better reflect the sun's heat. The third cause of difficulty in land operations...
Perhaps the most important accomplishment of the Council during the year has been in connection with the oral examination. After the Council had expressed itself opposed to probation as a penalty for failure to pass the examination, certain men were appointed to take the matter up with the University authorities, in co-operation with the Committee on Scholarship. The plans discussed by these men with the authorities were finally adopted by the Faculty. The chief provisions of the new scheme are as follows: Men who have not passed the oral by the middle of their Sophomore year shall be obliged...
...educated; he is only a college pass man." These words from one of Shaw's plays should strike a chord of profitable reflection in those who consider C a sufficient "gentleman's mark." At least one of the things for which most men come to college is, presumably, to acquire what is known as an education. No collegian would like to be obliged to carry his diploma about with him to prove that he really has a college degree. Most men have the desire for an education, even if not the will to acquire...
There is, however, no defense for the man who is a pass man by choice,--the man who chooses courses because they are reputed to be easy. It is intellectual curiosity, a conscientious striving to know, which distinguishes the man of culture from the complacent philistine. This spirit, combined with four years of effort,--not necessarily of the "grind" variety,--will make a man educated to the extent at least of not bringing shame upon the university whose degree he holds...
From the very start, the contest was a pitchers' duel. In the first, with two down, Harte drove in Harvard's first tally with a single, Abbot making the run. In the fifth, Holy Cross evened up matters. McCarthy drew a pass, went to second and third on two successive errors by Whitney, and scored when Graney singled...