Word: stands
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...When a student is, for any cause, absent from such an examination, the subject of that examination will stand against him as a condition, to be removed in the usual way by performing the corresponding work in some subsequent year. A student, however, whose absence from examination is excused, may, if he prefer, obtain a special examination; but the maximum mark at any such special examination will be only sixty per cent of the maximum mark of the examination for which it is substituted...
...Stand in a gleaming line...
...theory with regard to money and its value might have been as tenable as the other before either was tested. But when one has failed to stand the test of usefulness, it is difficult to see how it can reasonably be advocated for another trial at the cost of public credit. Representatives from the West and South, apparently ignorant of the subject, and unwilling to be persuaded by their opponents, might at least listen to a few lessons from the learned and anxious pens that appeal to them from the chief cities of the country...
...informed by a person who has been there that a new and very useful engraving-stand has been placed in the Library...
...really an amusement may not become a profession, he says: "The University ideal should be as high as possible. To hold up success in examination as the natural end of three years' exertion, is a very questionable doctrine; but it is still worse when athletic competition comes to stand upon the same level of popular applause...