Word: pass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eliot eleven opened their bag of tricks early in the fray, trying a sleeper play right after they had received the opening kickoff. The play failed, however, and on fourth down the Elephants fumbled the ball due to a poor pass from center, and the Lowell team chalked up a safety...
...methods as Harvard, present a high hurdle. The system of teaching is arranged here so that examinations count for a major part of the academic training, especially in Freshman year, where courses are large, and there is no tutorial guidance to help the student on his way. But to pass these examinations it is fair to say that no especial genius is required. When a student has done a fair amount of work and is able to organize his synthesis of this work on paper under pressure, he should have nothing to fear. And although those to whom the technique...
...Pass those November Hour Exams!" is the advice sung into the ears of Freshmen by worried parents and harried school principals every year at this time, and despite the monotony of the chant, it is sound counsel. For there can be no doubt that the instructors and section men take a general impression of every Freshman's work from the results of his first Hour Exams, an impression, be it good, bad, or indifferent, that is harder to change as the year wears on. But what those who watch others go into Hour exams for the first time fail...
This does not mean, of course, that everybody will pass. In every class there are a certain percentage of gentlemen who prefer to loaf, or let other people do their work for them. With men of this breed the College will, and should make short shrift. Also there will be a few who are incapable of making the grade at college, no matter how hard they try. These, also, will feel the first tickling of the knife about their necks at the current "Hours." But the rest should find no particular difficulty with the tests...
...Permission to pass through quarantine without pausing for medical inspection, if the ship doctor radios ahead that he has no serious disease aboard (TIME, Sept. 6 et ante...