Word: passing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...displayed by the Confederates, but because Nature stood in the way. The possession of Vicksburg was of the greatest importance to both sides. Situated on a series of high bluffs at a sharp bend in the Mississippi River, it perfectly commanded that great avenue of supply. No transport could pass, and only ironclads running by at night could escape destruction at the hands of the frowning batteries crowning the hills for several miles along the river. Grant, with a powerful army, lay two hundred and fifty miles to the north. Guarding the approaches in front of Grant was Pemberton...
...discussed. Article 8, relating to umpires, was stricken out, and it was decided to appoint a corp of three umpires, with one reserve, at a salary to be decided upon hereafter by the judiciary committee. No changes were made in the playing rules, the "six ball" rule failing to pass. The schedule, as adopted, is as follows...
Besides retaining all the rules of last season against professionalism, the Harvard faculty, we understand, intend to pass a further regulation that games may only be played on the grounds of one of the competing colleges; or else of some other college...
...fact that such notes are not only utterly worthless, but oftentimes very annoying to another. Of course every one has a right to cover his own books with any reflections he may choose to disfigure them with, but when such an one scribbles on library books,-books passing through so many hands,-he performs an act of extreme vandalism. Novels and biographies seem to be made the especial sufferers by these persons, and even the magazines do not escape being occasionally found with short articles clipped from them. It ought to be unnecessary to pass any such comment...
...case of the Hamilton College seniors. From the published statements it would seem that, not in any respect different from most such cases, both parties, the faculty and the seniors,-are more or less in the wrong. But it is always inadvisable for outsides to attempt to pass any pronounced judgments on such matters, as the means of correct information are always limited. Every college student knows how much his actions are miss-represented and misunderstood by the outside world and, we presume, college faculties experience the same difficulties. Leaving aside the original merits of the Hamilton College case...