Word: passes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Twenty-six Cornell freshmen failed to pass the mid-year examinations and have been advised not to return to college...
...Cambridge audience is not reputed to be the most enthusiastic in the world. It would be well, however, if the students who do go would put a little more life and animation in applauding the performers than has been the custom here to fore. It serves to make everything pass on more smoothly, inspiring a confidence and an ease to the soloist which is always appreciated...
...dissipations, if wholesome out-of-door exercises can be called by that name, consist in base-ball, foot-ball and skating in their season. If we look at the German boy in these same years we discover the same earnestness about the work and the same dogged determination to pass the examinations which close the American schoolboy's career, but his dissipations are of a very different sort. During the last two years of his gymnasium course, he finds it necessary to have miniature "commerce" or drinking bouts. The boy who downs the greatest number of glasses of beer becomes...
...opportunity to ferment a spirit of "strife" over the disgraceful conduct of a certain member of the Harvard nine on the Yale field, and also over the malignant articles which appeared in Harvard papers-on the game where no regard was paid to the truth-but we let it pass by in silence for the sake of that good feeling which we joined heart and soul in trying to bring about. The manly spirit as displayed by our athletic teams and by the college in general, we think is quite on a "level" with that displayed by Cambridge representatives...
...sport one of the few in which the New Haven institution as yet makes no pretensions to expertness. The great cricketing college is the University of Pennsylvania, which is very easily first in it. The laurels of base-ball, foot-ball, boating, tennis, or field and track athletics may pass from one institution to another during successive years, but no American college meets Pennsylvania on the wicket with much prospect of coming off victor. Haverford, Columbia and Harvard, however, often put fine elevens in the field, and it would probably give a great impulse to one of the most beneficial...