Word: passing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of Mr. Wendell's sections, and all sophonores, who failed to pass the anticipatory examination in Rhetoric and are unable to attend lectures, will kindly leave at 18 Gray's Hall, on or before Tuesday, Dec 16, a written analysis of the first chapter of the second book of Hill's Rhetoric...
...Princeton. The colleges were represented by the following members of the association: Harvard-Profs. Norton, Goodwin, and White; Brown-Prof. Harkness; Columbia-Prof. Drisler, and Princeton by Prof. Sloane. There were also present Messrs. DePeyster and Ludlow, of New York. The first duty before the committee was to pass resolutions on the death of Prof. Packard, who was acting director, prior to the directorship of the present incumbent. After this a report was read from Prof. Van Benscohoten, which was exceedingly favorable and showed the growing success of the school. He stated that the library now contained 2,000 volumes...
...dress, with a cigarette and a "dawg," was represented as coming out of Holworthy, carrying a shingle with the announcement that the Amazon Club met that night. Look on this picture, and on the following, and then say if the Lampoon's prophecy is unlikely to come to pass. On one of the trains to New York-so we learn from the New York Times-was a crowd of girls from some college or boarding school near Boston. They had two cars exclusively to themselves. Some of them were smoking. Dainty cigarette holders, says our informant, abounded...
...allowed to play games with other colleges, some action must be taken before the foot ball convention. The association should hold a meeting at once and instruct its delegates as to the nature of the changes which Harvard should attempt to pass in the convention, and then, perhaps, we shall be able to convince our faculty of the safety and propriety of a remodeled game of foot ball. We might at least make the attempt...
...pass a rule to the effect that: "If any eleven shall refuse to agree to the referee's decision, and shall delay the game more than five minutes, the game shall be declared forfeited, and shall be given to their opponents." This plan worms admirably in the different base ball leagues, where a nine finds fault with the umpiring, and it serves as a wholesome check on those inclined to 'kick...