Word: passed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Local Committee on Harvard Examinations for Women has offered a scholarship of three hundred dollars as a prize to the candidate who shall pass the examination in New York with the highest credit. The scholarship is intended as an inducement chiefly to those women who desire to use the money for the purpose of pursuing their studies during the coming year at any college chosen by them and approved by the above named committee. A fund for a second scholarship of a similar nature is now being raised. The examinations will be held in the rooms of the Young...
...excellence of her essay. For the daily press to set up a how at this, and declare that the young lady paid seventy dollars for the privilege of being a woman, is distinctly wrong, and an injustice to the University and to Prof. Torrey, which we cannot allow to pass unnoticed...
...might at this time test their proficiency in the various studies, and as it was customary for some of the overseers to visit the school whilst the students were thus doing "what were called sitting of solstices," these weeks were called the "weeks of visitation." Those who failed to pass the examinations were "deferred to the following year." The degree of bachelor of arts was conferred upon all who had successfully completed the four years course of study, and the degree of master of arts upon graduates of three year's standing. The examination for degrees were frequent and severe...
...examination of women." The gift was made through the medium of the N. Y. Evening Post, but the giver has kept his name a secret. The examinations to the support of which the fund is given, are instituted under the direction of Harvard University, and the young ladies who pass them are given a certificate as a testimony of their ability. This certificate is accepted in place of entrance examinations in the chief colleges for women in this country...
...substitution in their place of periodical hour examinations. His chief argument in favor of this change was that the present system allows a man so inclined to loaf the greater part of the year and to grind up before the examination just enough to enable him to pass. As a result, the writer urges, a few days after the examinations he knows as little as he did before. The adoption of the hour examination plan would prevent this evil and would cause systematic work...