pass degree
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pass degree
First recorded in 1910–15
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That is, it would seem, a pass degree tends to make a man a Tory.
From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various
Migrating thence to Oxford, he Failed to secure a pass degree.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 28, 1917 by Various
At the age of fifteen he entered as a student of civil and canon law at the university of Salamanca; but he obtained no academic distinctions and was content with an ordinary pass degree.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
When he only got a pass degree his friends were astonished; but he shrugged his shoulders and delicately insinuated that he was not the dupe of examiners.
From Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
His father, who had taken a pass degree at Oxford, and had then taken orders, was by that time Rector of Dartington and Archdeacon of Totnes.
From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
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