Word: passed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...duty of the president to pass sentence according to the verdict, but, if the student can show good cause, he may lower the grade of the offense or remit the penalty entirely. "But," though the president has this pardoning power, "he cannot in any case impose a heavier penalty than that of the grade fixed by the jury...
...chapters of the inter-collegiate fraternities, of which there are a large number at Bowdoin. Society feeling is so strong there that this was thought to be the only way by which the students could be represented. The President of the college officiates as judge at the trials, and passes sentence on the culprit after the jury have rendered a verdict as to his guilt, and as to the grade-of which four are named in the articles of agreement-to which in their opinion the offense belongs. A certain penalty is attached to each grade; and the President must...
...forensice, he has done more to raise the standard of the English department than has been done since the appointments of Professors Childs and Hill. Until this year the work in senior and junior forensics has been exceedingly unprofitable and disagreeable; now, although a mere augmentative theme will not pass for a forensic, as has hitherto been the case, forensic writing in most profitable, and, if not put off until the last minute, agreeable. Dr. Royce has taken a personal interest in every student's work by setting apart certain hours when he can be consulted. It is this contact...
...questions for some years past. Only one case of discipline has occurred during the existence of the senate; the question of athletics or no athletics was settled soon after the body's organization; and in fact the senators have done but little more at their stated meetings than to pass congratulations with the president on the prevailing harmony of the college. This accounts in a large degree for the embryo state of the constitution and the lack of fixedness in the prerogatives...
...children are growing up to be more supercilious than their father. They are still more cold and haughty. They smile at the people as they pass by to the church and say 'How foolish! We are the only wise ones of the earth.' They have no regard for any but the few that are like them, and they are few indeed...