Word: passed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college course has devoted all his leisure time to mastering the art of rowint or of ball-playing, will find, although these sports afforded a healthful means of recreation while his student life lasted, that in after life they are of but little help in making the time pass more agreeably during the summer weeks spent in the country, where he yearly escapes the burdens of business or of a profession. For the chances are ten to one that after leaving college a man will never either sit in a shell or take part in a game of ball. Within...
...inquire about what may be called the constitutionality of an act of one of the instructors. The gentleman in question is a hard marker, and put on the examination paper questions purposely indefinite. Not satisfied with this, he felt called upon to warn not only those who did not pass the examination, but many who did. This fountain head of justice did not stop here. He sent official communications to the families of those students who had failed to attain a certain mark above 40 per cent. Is this not virtually raising the amount of work required to pass...
...full college course occupies three years, and except in especial cases, no young lady is admitted under eighteen years of age. Candidates for admission are required to pass an entrance examination and furnish a certificate of character. The curriculum embraces: modern languages, classics, mathematics, natural science, moral science, history, and vocal music. The professors of Cambridge have given their services free, and the readings, entertainment's, etc., of the university, with its musical society, are open to students...
...most nearly associated with Priceton's athletic interests concur, the resolutions will be adopted. A member of the faculty committee said that the object was to eliminate the professional standard from college athletics and to put the men of all colleges on an equal basis. Harvard, he said, would pass the resolutions any way, but Princeton would not concur on that account or on account of the concurrence of five of the smaller colleges. "Yale," said the gentleman, "did not act fairly in not attending the convention. It would not have compromised her. The idea is that Yale will...
...specialist who loves his study may devote all possible time and energy to a course, and pass perfect examinations, and yet his work count less than that of this favored superficialist, who has spent less time on the course, but receives the higher mark because he has taken no other course in the same branch...