pass degree
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pass degree
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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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 Arthur Christopher Benson
He is at present preparing to take a pass degree: and after that he thinks of going abroad to devote himself seriously to a course of Tymborychology.
From The Casual Ward academic and other oddments by A. D. (Alfred Denis) Godley
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
It was by making this sharp distinction between the pass degree and the honor degree that the English universities long ago solved the question, much agitated still in America, of the three years' course.
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
Hallin left Cambridge after a pass degree to become lecturer on industrial and economical questions in the northern English towns.
From Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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