Word: passed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot-ball team leave for New York at eleven this morning. They will pass the night in that city, going to Princeton on Saturday morning. The team will play as follows: Rushers, Adams, Kendall, Bonsal, Appleton, Cabot, Hartley and Gilman; quarterback, Kimball; half-backs, Peabody and Austin; full-back, Cowling; substitutes, (backs) Henry and Biddle; (quarter-back) Mason; (rushers) Codman and Crane. The rush line averages 169 1-2 lbs. and the whole team165...
...grammar as the necessary key to all higher education in the revival period) were, by their founders' wills connected with, or placed under the supervision of certain colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, and scholarships and exhibitions at these colleges were endowed for pupils trained at such schools, provided they pass certain, by no means easy examinations. Great good has resulted to education from this fact, and great gratitude is due to those generous and wise men of the 15th and 16th centuries, who thus secured to diligent students of the humblest classes the means of obtaining at school and college...
...fact that "students pass from any school to the university without examinations." At some of those named above, examiners-dis-tinguished fellows of the colleges-go down annually from Oxford and Cambridge to the schools, and examine, chiefly by papers,-as the Harvard examiners now do at Chicago, Philadelphia, and other centres-in English classics, mathematics, natural sciences and modern languages-and those who pass that examination with credit are awarded scholarships as exhibitions at certain colleges...
...Snell" scholarships are given annually to Glasgow University ; at Christ's Church, three each year to Westminister ; at St. John's, fifteen are awarded to Merchant Taylors' School (London) after open examination by Oxford examiners at the school. I could mention many more, but this may suffice. No students pass into the university from these schools without a very searching examination. Let me add, while the school courses are generally six years, candidates are only required to be two years at most of the schools...
...that work is being done on the roof of the new Physical Laboratory there is especial need of precaution on the part of those who pass by the end of the building. This is particularly emphasized by the recent experience of a passing student, who just escaped being struck with a falling hammer. It is very disgraceful that when there is such a constant stream of travel from the gymnasium to Jarvis field, more care should not be taken for the safety and convenience of such persons who are at present beset by dangers above and below. We sincerely trust...