Word: passed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Randolph De B. Keim has been appointed chief examiner of the civil service commission, and W. W. White clerk. The President is to examine the rules adopted by the commission and pass upon them at a cabinet meeting tomorrow...
...many courts have been in use for nearly a month. But as yet there are many courts simply lying idle, as their owners have not yet commenced to play. In our opinion, some regulation should be made on this point. The Tennis Association has full power and can easily pass suitable rules. Let it be understood that those men who own courts in the fall can claim them in the spring up to a certain date, and that if, after that date, the owners have not claimed their courts, the ground is open to the first comer who wishes...
...Such a course of advanced study as that proposed at Princeton," says President Porter, "is the legitimate way for colleges to pass into universities, and there is need now of a university, liberal and comprehensive, to which the graduates of Harvard and Princeton and Yale may go for post-graduate instruction. The place for the founding of such a university is in a large city; there it is where best can be gathered great minds. It is at London today that many of the greatest lectures are delivered, and not at the English universities." And, with this in view, President...
...will be humor mixed with the grave concerns of testing knowledge, which is, for both sides, a hard enough task. The student who, when asked by a stern examiner what he would recommend in order to produce copious perspiration in a patient, replied, "I'd make him try to pass an examination before you, sir!" had a keen sense of humor, which it is to be hoped the examiner appreciated. His answer was in keeping with the question which has been argued by us and by others, whether the whole subject of examinations, as at present conducted, should...
...which cannot be properly treated, and that much harm is done to boys and young men by the forcing process to which they are subjected, can hardly be disputed. It was said a good many years ago of a legal examination that not one of the examiners could have passed it. Strong in his own subject, each would have failed in one of the others. Might not a hint be taken from this that in future those who conduct the more severe examinations shall be required to pass them? Such a regulation would possibly be found to produce a marked...