Word: passing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this distinction is manifestly unjust to those of us who live at a distance from Cambridge. Why should those who can pass their Sundays at home be exempted from attendance at church more than others? Is it because their fathers are expected to control their actions? If so, why then should a Western father be denied the privilege granted to others of controlling the church attendance of his son? If he wishes that his son should attend regularly, can he not write directions to that effect? If he wishes that he should be excused altogether, can he not write that...
...student who does not regularly pass Sunday with his family or friends may so pass Sunday six times in a year, provided he gives notice of each absence in writing to the Registrar, accompanied by a certificate of attendance at church when he has passed Sunday elsewhere than with his family...
...again, suppose he comes from a distance, but has friends in neighboring towns. They might be very glad to have him pass Sunday with them occasionally, but what one of them would be willing to entertain him every Sunday for thirty-eight weeks? Yet this is the only way in which he may visit them. I cannot conceive of a more absurd regulation. What possible harm can there be in a man's spending his Sundays where he pleases, so long as his family is satisfied...
DEAR JACK,- I find that I have an excellent opportunity to pass a few months in Europe; and as I never allow opportunities of this sort to slip by, I am going to sail next week. As this, then, is probably the last letter that I shall write to you for some time, I shall venture to devote it to a subject which may not be of immediate interest to you at this moment, but which certainly will occupy a great deal of your time when you have penetrated a little deeper into the mysteries of college life. I refer...
Somebody or other once said that if a couple of Americans were shipwrecked on a desert island, they would at once proceed to organize a meeting. One would take the chair, the other would be secretary; and they would pass a series of formal resolutions, setting forth the dangers of their position, and the methods which they proposed to adopt to ward off starvation and death. There is a good deal of truth in this. We are so enamored of free institutions that we never like to do anything without the sanction of parliamentary forms. And when we find ourselves...