Word: passing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Theme I. will be due on Tuesday, October 9. It is to be autobiographic in character, on some topic at once personal and significant, such as "Why I Came to College," "What I Hope to Accomplish in Life," "How I Pass My Time," "My Favorite Amusement," or the like...
...considerable number of students has felt the need of at least a half-course in the topics of the day. There can be little doubt that, were such a course started and conducted on an intelligent basis, it would be largely attended. Many men enter college and pass from day to day with very meagre ideas of that which is doing in the world about them. Congressional reforms have little interest for them, and present European politics are too complicated and need too patient study to be carefully followed. This is simply the result of one's finding himself...
...McCosh's latest work on psychology, recently published by Scribners, has been adopted as a text book in colleges in Japan and Ceylon; and students in the State University of Calcutta are required to pass an examination on the book before the degree of A. B. will be granted...
...Wesleyan student begins to count up his "cuts" as the examinations approach; and if he finds that he has been absent from ten per cent. of the regular exercises of any subject, he will be obliged to pass a preliminary examination before being allowed to try the regular...
...three birds last year. All who are able should make a point of supporting our team, and we can assure those who have never seen a match that the shooting is very entertaining to watch. The walk to the grounds is very pleasant, and the Watertown horse cars pass very near the place...