Word: passed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this, one settles down for some more hard and wearing work in the evening, then those well-meaning individuals who get up a lively nocturnal entertainment certainly deserve the heartfelt praise and gratitude of all who have been so favored. How much better it is that we should pass the evening listening to the cheerful and familiar sound of whistling, singing, cheering, shouting, explosion of torpedoes and snapping of crackers, than that we should wear ourselves out by a long grind in the evening after the labors of the day. Those who accept these little favors in the kindly spirit...
...Education of Women have made their report. The committee declare that co-education at present in Columbia College is impracticable. The college professors will. however, examine young lady applicants over eighteen years of age, giving them practically the same examinations as the freshmen entering the college are compelled to pass. The lady students can study at any school or at their houses if they desire, and will be allowed to choose their own course of study. The young ladies who pass the final examination at the close of five years' study will be given a certificate of the college...
...gentlemen in charge of its affairs do not hold its honors so lightly as to vote to bestow them where they are undeserved, is an absurdity. "Popularity" which is to be lost in this way is better lost than gained. Matters have not yet come to such a pass in Massachusetts that an individual or an institution will lose anything by adherence to correct and consistent principles...
...happens that, while several sections pursue the same subject and have an equal amount of knowledge, one division of them is subjected to a very hard examination and the other to an easy one; the former being marked freely, so as to allow nearly every one to pass, and the latter closely, so that far too many are made to fail. Paradoxical as it may sound, there is a great deal of difference in marking what a man does and marking what he does not do, and yet many instructors seem to be entirely ignorant of this fact. If mistakes...
...college songs, which they intend to sing for the first time at this concert. Besides these, several solos, vocal and instrumental, help to make up a specially fine programme. As the association of the Glee Club and Pierian is in need of money, college men will not only pass an enjoyable evening by attending the concert, but will, at the same time, aid materially our two musical societies. As an experiment, tickets for this concert have been reduced to $1.00 and 50 cents. So pecuniary considerations should keep none from attending. We hope to see Sanders well filled...