Word: passed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...student should allow the years of his college life to pass without an increase of manly physical vigor. He should graduate, proud of his physique as well as of his mental attainments. His future success depends upon both these factors, and only narrowness of mind or of training is shown in the neglect of either. Whoever thinks to magnify his intellect by neglecting or belittling his body, is as wise as he who expects fruit without vines...
...School. Whittaker, strongly guarded by the freshmen, made his appearance at the main entrance, while the sophomores awaited him, with their bowl, at the foot of the steps on the campus. With one powerful rush the freshmen forced their man down the steps, straight through the crowd of sophomores, pass the bowl, over the campus, across the Darby road, and safely housed him in Otto's beer saloon. All this was done in six minutes, the best time on record. Then the crowd rushed back to the campus to fight for the possession of the bowl, which was soon forced...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes contradicts the cable story that he is going to England to lecture, and says he desires to pass the remainder of his life in his own country by his own fire-side...
This is what the Lasell Leaves, says about Memorial: "At dinner all reserve is cast off. Sallies of wit pass from one to another, and jokes are cracked at nay one's expense. All the men are on a level. Beck Hall and Holworthy sit at the table with College House, and pleasant remarks are exchanged by this representative of Boston elite, and that earnest, hard-working son of some country town...
During the recent convention of representatives from Harvard, Yale and other colleges to consider the subject of athletics, one of the speakers unbosomed himself thus: "Athletics have come to the pass where they are no longer fair and open trials of strength and skill, but on the contrary, as at present conducted, they train the young men to look upon victory as the rewards of treachery and deceit. That this is the case, anyone who has seen the game of baseball as it is played by the so-called best college nines will at once admit. For the pitcher, instead...