Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Government offered no comment on the fact that the compulsory News proposition had failed to win a majority of the entire student vote. This majority of the total enrollment--not just of those voting--had been announced before and frequently during the balloting as necessary either to pass or to reject any one of the three subjects under discussion...
...change the methods of such a vote after it has been completed is more than a simple alteration: it affects the nature of the vote. In any parliamentary group which needs a specific percentage of the total membership to pass a bill, an abstention is equivalent to a vote against the bill. A Senator who refuses to sign a cloture petition helps to keep it from gaining its necessary two-thirds total, and a similar situation prevailed at Radcliffe under the announced rules of this balloting...
...March 14, 1948, by a student at Charles University, a man in his mid-twenties, who is doing advanced work in both English and Russian. He is a Social Democrat. His father, who is a carpenter in a village twenty-five miles from Prague, is a National Socialist. I pass this letter on, not as the whole story in Czechoslovakia, but as a characteristic student opinion. F. O. Matthiessen...
...field of concentration through the friendly medium of a personal association. It provides that the advisor's work with his charge shall transcend the signing of a study card, and that he shall attempt to awaken the latter's interest in the educational enterprise, or, finding it awake, pass him along into the tutorial program where he belongs. Where tutorial is too strictly limited, the advisor may assign readings and carry on the work of tutoring within reasonable bounds...
Oklahoma! turned five. It was possibly the last annual milestone the Pulitzer-cited musical would pass on Broadway; she was still "fresh as a daisy," one critic reported, but her long box-office stride was slackening-as well it might. Oklahoma! had already far outrun (2,134 performances) any other musical in Broadway history*; only a handful of plays (e.g., Life with Father, Tobacco Road, Abie's Irish Rose) had lasted longer...