Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will want to go to Notre Dame, some of it will be bought up and sent to the big Southern schools. Harvard can't get these boys, and Harvard probably doesn't want many of them, for football players should never be allowed to come here unless they can pass entrance exams in equal competition with their less agile contemporaries...
...Alumni cannot present a case to prospective students unless the University takes certain steps. We repeat: The authors are completely opposed to athletic scholarships at Harvard. But if a man can pass the entrance examinations on his own, there are some things which the University could do without compromising admittedly sound principles...
Matthiessen especially urged the building of a theater here. Past presidents Lowell and Eliot refused to set up a theater and dramatic department, but Levin stated that there was a good chance that the present administration might pass a proposal for a theater...
Each year, hundreds of men stop up their brains and fill them with bith of vocabulary and grammar. Then they take Harvard's language requirement examination. If they pass, they pull the stopper and let what they have learned dribble...
This is not as it should be. Men in this position should be permitted to sidestep the useless rote processes of memorization now needed to pass the minimum language requirement. Elementary language is a field where the philosophy of general education simply does not apply. The forgettability factor is too great and a smattering of grammar and vocabulary becomes almost completely worthless in a year or two, if it is not followed up with more advanced courses where it can be applied...