Word: passing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressmen will soon have a chance to get their paws on an Administration bill to pass out $300,000,000 to the nation's public schools. Although supporters of this aid to education are reasonably confident that the House and Senate will agree with the measure, they are also understandably nervous. For the last 30 years, the national legislature has consistently batted down so-called "general-aid" education bills, although it has approved such specific programs as land-grant colleges and funds for vocational training...
Kirtley F. Mather is one of the University's most stimulating lecturers. Under Mather's direction, Geology 1 has delighted non-concentrators, and has been used by many undergraduates to pass off the science requirement...
...gets through the entire obstacle course, maintaining good grades at the same time, he receives an honor degree. If not, and he fails down on one exam or, say, his thesis or grades, he is often made a "pass candidate" and given an ordinary degree in History and Literature...
...noon, House masters will pass out degrees to the Class during House luncheons, and in the afternoon recipients of honorary degrees will make addresses during alumni exercises...
...these fields. So it is up to the Government--which is already socialistically entrenched in the Columbia Valley--to do its work better through the medium of an independent agency like the CVA. If the Eighty-First Congress manages to break through the power-lobby smokescreen to pass the CVA bill, it will have something, at least, to be proud of, regardless of the rest of its legislative record...