Word: passed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senior class of Bowdoin College was yesterday found guilty of the larceny of a diploma from the office of the medical school of Maine, and fined $10. The diploma was made out in the name of Noah McMonagle of the class of '82, but witheld for failure to pass examination. Perham sold McMonagle the sheepskin...
...some one appointed and certified by the government. A primary school is established in each parish, in which the instruction is of the most elementary character. Next comes the realschule for commercial, and the gymnasium for more classical education. Certain lines of employment are restricted to those who pass the final examinations in these schools. Probably the most perfect public educational system in the world is in Switzerland. A third of the whole taxation revenue is devoted to the schools, besides the fee paid for each child. There is a primary school in every commune; attendance is compulsory. Above these...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I wish to suggest through your columns that the managers of the Athletic Association take some action to prevent crowding at the opening of the doors at the next meeting. Half an hour is not time enough for nearly two thousand persons to pass through a small gate and seat themselves in the hall. If at the next meeting there are as many present as there were at the last - probably there will be more - it will be very inconvenient, if not almost impossible, for a gentleman with ladies to get into the hall unless some change...
...famous collection of manuscripts now offered for sale, the Oxford Magazine thinks that "the subject is one on which Oxford ought to have an opinion and to express it. Surely it would be misplaced parsimony to allow such a mine of wealth for the scholar and antiquary to pass into the hands of Germany or America...
...will pass over the HERALD'S mere general statements of what "past experience," etc., has shown, and consider its more positive statements. The HERALD says: "The system is nothing short of offering a prize to young men to adopt a certain profession." Now, the scholarships here in college are not given to men studying a profession, neither are they supposed or intended to be so given. They are given to men that they may be better educated and better fitted for whatever they shall hereafter undertake. The fact that out of 148 men of the last graduating class, who signified...