Word: flunk
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...thorough investigation of how to pass these things. First, he slithered up the steps of the Widow to see how matters went along there. Prying with praiseworthy dispatch, albeit with unnecessary quietude, into the files he found that the amiable Old Lady was never had one of her devotees flunk. Encouraging news, to put it mildly...
...cent, of failures, just as the result hovers around that figure today of the sophomores. This English examination is outrageously difficult--stupid questions by writers of text-books who are ignorant of the limitations of the average youth. Why, after a semester of study, dig up questions that flunk 50 or 60 per cent, of the class...
...regretted that there is no sliding scale on which might be judged the professors who assign these semi-annual quizzes. For an examination paper examines the man who gives it as well as him who takes it, and from this point of view many of our faculty would flunk...
...keenest resentment felt by the CRIMSON, it seems, was to the informal tone of the letter. It may have been a mistake to address in this way a Harvard undergraduate, jealous of his natural right to flunk out of college. He immediately suspects that there is a hidden significance--to be dreaded--as the CRIMSON has shown. Perhaps Professor Coolidge would have done better to make the letter coldly formal. That the CRIMSON took the attitude it did is an indication of the way any attempt to promote informality between the student body and the faculty, in the Houses...