Word: passed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would be glad to room in it for the sake of its associations? There is an indescribable charm about the rooms of Holworthy, Stoughton and Hollis, that is lacking in the newer buildings. Why then should not Massachusetts be restored that some of us may have an opportunity to pass a few years of college life in one of the cheery, low-coiled rooms, with small windows and deep, comfortable window seats, which at present are in such demand in Holworthy...
Each year there are a large number of students who pass the admission examinations, and the report goes on to say in this regard that, in giving these persons a thorough examination, the college renders a gratuitous service, partly to them, and partly to the schools from which they come; and it will continue freely to render this service until the labor which these examinations impose upon it becomes unreasonably heavy. Every ambitious pupil in the graduating class of a school or academy desires, for his own credit, to pass all the examinations which his comrades are passing...
...distinguished, has only to go to Canton to gain a reward, if he deserves it. Entering a great hall called the Hoktoi, where tables are provided for more than 3,000 candidates, he can sit down and take his chance for the first degree; and supposing that he passes, is then qualified for a greater examination. This takes places in a huge building, or rather series of buildings, capable of accommodation upward of 10,000 students. On the day appointed, the youths who desire to pass enter a great gate and find themselves in a vast yard wherein...
...said that only three Freshman were able to pass the entrance Greek at Cornell...
...many recitations as they dare, and will do little if any work on their courses up to the time for examination. Then with the aid of tutos and a few days of hard "cramming," they will acquire enough of the leading matter of the subjects in hand to pass the lest prescribed, and be permitted to go along in the same manner until the next examination time when the process is repeated. Such a state of affairs is really ludicrous, when we reflect that men are sent to college to at least acquire some little knowledge more than they...