Word: passed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...membership. All this is a very considerable achievement for an organization planned, founded, and managed by college students, and in view of these facts the Society may be pronounced a decided success. Unfortunately, there is a certain lack of smoothness in one or two particulars which may bring to pass a dangerous discontent, and swamp the Society. The chief trouble is that ordered goods are delayed. This is, perhaps, in most cases unavoidable; but the great number of complaints on this subject seems to indicate an inability on the part of the Society to do its work with perfect accuracy...
...obviate the difficulty? When a student is desirous of a book which is out at that time, the librarian could send a notice to the borrower, requesting him to return the book as soon as he had finished reading it. In this way the book, if in demand, would pass as rapidly as possible from student to student, often, doubtless, being kept out even less than two weeks, while, on the other hand, no one would be compelled to cut short the time he retains possession of the book for purpose of study or reference...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Passing in at Memorial today I noticed but one forlorn umbrella standing in the racks in the transcept, while inside the dining-hall I found a number of umbrellas ranged along the walls beneath the coats and hats of their owners. The reason of this condition of affairs is plain. The racks stand outside, unprotected and alone, and men will not risk exposing their property to the danger of theft or easy misappropriation by leaving their umbrellas here. Too many cases have already occurred of umbrellas disappearing and of their owners being unable to regain them. Thus...
...explain : No honor course in college requires a man to devote more than six full courses to that study. Besides this he has to pass a special examination, which to a man that has done faithful work in his courses is but little difficulty. A man who gets honors in any subject, receives a magna cum laude degree practically for eighteen hours work. But for a man to get this degree in regular course he must attain a mark of eighty-five per cent. in his last three years, i. e., for 42 hours a week, a mark that would...
...candidate for final honors in these courses must have completed, with an honorable average, the special studies of his course, present a thesis and pass an examination on either Von Holst's United States or the history of Germany leading to the formation of the New Empire...