Word: passed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mere question of marks and marks. Thus, in many cases, the principal outcome is an extreme regret and disappointment at not having done just a little better. Turning to the "popular side" of the rank list, the same sentiment will apply. The poor fellow who fails to pass, frequently does so by a very narrow margin, and his failure is all the more exasperating from this fact. Numberless instances might be given where the victim wildly blames himself and the instructor - usually the latter - when he thinks how near he came getting through...
...shake the peace of the Commonwealth to its very foundation. Last year the freak of the freshmen at Oscar Wilde's lecture would have made the subject of editorials of the bitterest kind, denouncing not only the sixty "bold, bad men," but also the whole college. They now pass lightly over what last year would have been a good subject for the indignant utterances of the editorial pen, and even say that the freshmen did a good thing. This change is as marvellous as it is sudden. The cause of it remains, and always will remain an enigma. We would...
...great promise for the future in broadening the aims and increasing the opportunities of the college. Its direct results, of course, are not made apparent by examinations as in all other courses; but this is hardly to be called a drawback to the system. It may perhaps come to pass that this innocent experiment shall result in showing the authorities that it is possible for men to acquire useful knowledge in certain subjects by such means, without having that knowledge afterwards clinched by the painful process of examination. This result can only come if students exhibit in ways more...
...certificate of graduation from such preparatory schools as maintain the university standard, to be accepted as the qualification of the student for college - as the certificate from the gymnasium secures the student's entrance into the university in Germany. Those students, prepared by private tutors, would then have to pass the final examination of some high school or academy. Harvard, today, would be relieved of much trouble should it accept such certificates from Exeter, Andover, Quincy and other academies and high schools of a certain standard...
...really the freshman class is quite innocent of either praise or blame in the matter, and, I am sure, is very unwilling to pluck any of their hardearned laurels from the brows of their sixty (or forty) classmates. Nevertheless, they will, without doubt, feel willing to let their deed pass for our traditional theatre visit, if these agree, and consider the matter well ended...