Word: passed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seats erected in the gymnasium, although not fully adequate to accommodate the large crowds at the last two meetings of last year, were as good as could be expected, from the fact that they had to be put up Saturday and taken down before Monday afternoon. If the meetings pass off as well this year as they did last, nothing more can be asked...
...bring together congenial men, who might not otherwise become acquainted. By the facilities which it would offer in the way of interesting magazines and papers, it would attract a great many men at odd hours in the day. The club rooms would be an excellent place in which to pass the time between recitations, a purpose which the library now meets very imperfectly. Visiting teams and distinguished lecturers to the college could be entertained there by their friends, and an opportunity would in that way be offered to the students in general to make their acquaintance. Such a club...
...archaic conventionalities as the influence of athletic games. The canons of form they produced have fashioned the feeling for form and proportion ever since. The reason of its widespread influence is that Greek art was at the same realistic and identical. Before art can gain universal validity it must pass through nature and rise higher than the reality from which it is conceived, and this is what happened in Greece. The influence of the athletic games can hardly be exaggerated. They gave the artist a chance to study the human form, and the continual practice of athletes for the games...
...candidates for the Mott Haven team pass the 16-pound shot every afternoon for about fifteen minutes...
Princeton has laid down rigid requirements for applicants for the degrees Ph. D. and LL.D. They must pass satisfactory entrance and final examinations, they must be Bachelors of Art, and must pursue a special course of study in their department for two years, one year of which period must be in Princeton...