Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students in Harvard College must pass, before the end of their second year, a special oral examination to test their power of translating either French or German. Opportunity to take either or both of these examinations will be given in the afternoons, beginning Monday, January 19. All candidates who wish to take the oral examination must notify the Recorder, 4 University Hall, in writing, on or before Thursday, January 15. Each candidate will then be notified when and where to present himself for the oral examination...
Professor Carver stated that there is considerable danger of a great flood of emigration to this country due to the prevailing high wages here and the low wages abroad. "Of course we have our literacy restrictions," he commented, "but unless some other measures are taken American immigration will pass all bounds, and I think it very probable that such steps will be taken to prevent a flood of foreigners coming to this country...
...able to discover yet whether or not it has brought to humanity that uplift of spirit which was, supposedly, to follow it. In such a great catastrophe involving all the nations of the world we cannot judge immediately what permanent changes it has brought to pass. I am confident that the spirit of sacrifice and the realization of the meaning of Christianity which the war brought to the world will not disappear now that we have returned to peace. The war left too deep an impress on the human mind to let us turn again to our former selfish, shallow...