pass degree

American  

noun

1. (in English universities) an ordinary bachelor's degree conferred without honors.

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Etymology

Origin of pass degree

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

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pass degree

It is difficult to imagine a condition of greater vacuity than that in which a man leaves the University after taking a pass degree.

From From a College Window by Benson, Arthur Christopher

Hallin left Cambridge after a pass degree to become lecturer on industrial and economical questions in the northern English towns.

From Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

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

For the increasing number of those who can afford only three years' study, a pass degree would probably prove of the greatest advantage.

From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John

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