Word: passing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ablative in Plautus or the power of reaching a mathematical infinity, as his claim for admittance, is of small moment with respect to one matter. We can well afford to allow the future freshman to fret and terrify his soul over the classics, but we who have passed the slough of despond require none the less a recognition of our power to read the classics. It is very pleasant and profitable for us that the beauties of Chaucer should be held up for our admiration. But this is not enough. We miss the accustomed classical readings which have been given...
...American preparatory school and the first two years of college. Mathematics, Greek, Latin, French, history, geography, natural history and elementary natural philosophy, a short course in logic, with elective Hebrew and English form the course of study. The method is systematic, the discipline rigorous. The students usually pass from the gymnasium into the university.-Dartmouth...
Thus it comes to pass that the Morgue is no longer a mere inanimate building. It becomes weirdly endowed with an awful personality. It is an explorer, it is an expounder, it is a preacher, it is a prophet, it is a stern moralist, it is a ghastly buffoon, it is a broken-hearted recording angel. Like some horrible ghoul, grinning and gibbering forever amid its dark mysteries, it stretches out awful hands to the wretched and the despairing throughout the vast, throbbing city, and whispers: "Come to me, come to me!" and they hear and shudder and turn cold...
...next point in the new requirements which will attract the attention is the radical change proposed in the scientific department. At present the incoming classes come to Cambridge with a superficial knowledge of the natural sciences which enables them, it is true, to pass their entrance examinations, but which falls far short of any desirable standard. This state of affairs is attributable to the fact that the preparatory schools fail to make adequate provisions for a thorough study of these branches. It is now proposed to compel the candidates for admission to obtain a suitable "fit," by demanding a laboratory...
...discovery of unknown matter. The great difficulty instructors at Harvard feel in applying the method of investigation is the lack of preparation of the students when entering college. Our preparatory schools aim not to fit students for study at a University, but merely to enable them to pass the entrance examinations. Consequently the work at Harvard is often more elementary than the instructors would desire...