Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failed in his first examination for the doctorate of science. He knew he could pass it, but he had attended a celebration the night before. And, having ideas of his own, he refused to "beat the system." Later he took the degree, be came Research Associate of the Cancer Commission, Assistant Dean of Harvard, Assistant Director of the Carnegie Institute's Station for Experimental Evolution at Washington, Captain in aviation, Presi dent of the University of Maine. At 37, a university president for the second time, he shocked Michigan conservatives by publicly advocating birth control, became Director...
...condition of people who had heretofore been only a little less tragically useless than lepers. Now competent organizations function to aid the blind. In Mount Healthy, the Trader sisters, one blind, both with foresight, have established the Clovernook Press. There, by subscription, are printed books in braille. Kindly senators pass laws; a beneficent government charges no postage on books mailed to the blind. Workers from the American Foundation for the Blind apply their efforts to the readjustment of other sightless persons, collect funds for the work, conduct surveys in order to discover what occupations are most suitable to blind persons...
...undergraduates that is highly interesting and the outcome of which is worth looking forward to. At Cambridge the undergraduates, facing mid-years, have since the Christmas vacation been "on their own," no classes having been held by the Faculty and the student body left to its own devices to pass the examinations just ahead. This hiatus is called a "reading period," and its purpose is to give the students a chance not only to catch up on the fast-flying regular work of the first term but to put in some real work in rather more than "preparing...
...there can be no doubt that boys would be prepared earlier if there were a demand for it. But although a feeling appears to be gaining ground that education is finished at too advanced an age, yet a considerable number of parents whose sons are prepared for college and pass their admission examination at 17, postpone their entrance for a year. This is almost always a mistake. The youth is taken out of the normal current of his life to do something else, and does not usually regain his pace. Statistics covering a number of years, show that the students...
...certain social status in the outside world is essential to election in certain societies." In the matter of manners he only suggested the state of affairs described by the widely touted Miss Cabot, and invested them with a gay cameradie. In point of morals, however, Mr. Duffus let himself pass judgement. His is the opinion, now becoming widespread, that the undergraduate is no better or worse than his predecessors, that he is "fundamentally sound." The student here at Harvard is credited with no Freudian repressions while studying. "Even now the Harvard boy conspicuously ignores the feminine intruder, though...