Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...band trooped into a broadcasting station in Austin, Tex., whooped and whanged in the style that has made them the Lone Star State's biggest air attraction. The studio audience of 200 noisily demanded encore after encore. But presently the band and its leader, Flour Salesman W. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, had to leave to perform before a crowd of 70,000 that packed the University of Texas stadium...
...something about them. Seeing the heart of the problem, John Jay Chapman wrote in 1924: "College loyalty is the only religion the schoolboy knows. . . . And this religious idea is kept alive in him by the vision of the ultimate college examinations--the Clashing Rocks through which he must pass to save his soul alive. . . . Thus an enormous moral pressure is put on him to make him do an intelligent thing--and this on an urchin who has never been taught to use his mind." He and others shuddered at the mania for size which had seized the wealthier schools...
...animal running a steeplechase, with the dean's office as jockey; the ideal of individual instruction is submerged beneath a mass of competitive symbols and scholastic rigmarole. On the other hand, the effect is to turn the headmaster into an executive charged with the training of his students to pass college boards, not to enter college with a foundation of wide, well-integrated knowledge. Grooved by his responsibility to the boys' parents, he is apt to operate his school like a clothing store, fitting out each student with the requisite apparel and giving him only the choice between...
...order to graduate from Hiram, the student must take part in athletics for two years and pass skill tests in a whole variety of team and individual indoor and outdoor, sports. Football, baseball, basketball, tennis, etc. are of course included; so is wrestling...
...game was won by individual, rather than by team performance. Honors go to Dem Lloyd at center, whose sinking of a pass-out by Walt Whittaker from behind the net nullified an early Cambridge lead midway in the first stanza. It was the only assist of the game. After 37 seconds of the second period, Lloyd again split the Cambridge defense, and placed Harvard in the lead...