Word: passed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...teaching functions. Most of the real teaching, it is said, is provided by the unauthorized and outside system of private tutors, who exist independently of the colleges, and have, in a great degree, superseded them. In too many cases the candidate for an ordinary degree, if he wish to pass, is compelled to make use of a private tutor. His college does, indeed, provide him with a certain number of lectures, but the number is usually quite inadequate, and even if it were greater in several instances the teaching provided is not nearly so well calculated for the needs...
...that home-like, comfortable air to the hall that few men would resist. Instead of being a half-deserted, lonesome place, which makes a man feel "blue" the instant he enters it, it would become a true commons, where would resort the most of the men in college, to pass what would become the pleasantest hour of the day. I trust that you will give this communication a place in your columns, although I confess that it may seem very much of an innovation which I advocate. Yours...
Questions propounded by an E. C. [esteemed contemporary] for solution by the class in Freshman Physics : What velocity must a locomotive have to pick up a deaf man walking on the track and fling him so high that six cars pass before he comes down? A mother standing at the gate calls to her boy who is exactly sixty-eight feet distant. It takes two minutes and twenty-two seconds for the sound to reach him. - Find from this the velocity with which a woman's voice travels. A woman arrives at the depot three minutes ahead of train time...
...legislation have all gone to the making of them. These university governments have two modern assemblies, called in Oxford "Convocation" (made up of alumni having degrees) and "Congregation" (made up of graduates resident in the university town). These latter appoint the university council, and all university statutes must pass through the three bodies...
...have deficient facilities for medical training, because the towns are too small to support great hospitals. Natural science is now everywhere encouraged. (3) Ampler provision is required for teaching in a great number of more recondite subjects, and encouragement should be given to men, who do not intend to pass through the whole university course, to come and attend lectures in these subjects. (4) Something should be done to enable the university to help original research, and to increase the number of residents who devote themselves to the pursuit of learning. At present large funds are wasted in what...