pass-man

I think many of us must regret that a deeper tincture of learning is not required of the average pass-man, or injected into him perforce.

I. Introductory 1920

In those times, when a pass-man showed unusual powers, they could give him an honorary class; not a high class, because the range of the examination was less than in the honour-school.

The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911

I think many of us must regret that a deeper tincture of learning is not required of the average pass-man, or injected into him perforce.

On The Art of Reading Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

In those times, when a pass-man showed unusual powers, they could give him an honorary class; not a high class, because the range of the examination was less than in the honour-school.

The Life of John Ruskin 1893

But he ought to have known, and I should think he must have known, that at the time of his writing the mere and sheer pass-man -- the man whose knowledge was represented by the minimum of Smalls, Mods, and Greats -- was, if not actually in a minority, -- in some colleges at least he was that -- at any rate in a pretty bare majority.

Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889

Whether Mr Arnold shared Mark Pattison's craze about the abolition of the pass-man altogether, I do not know.

Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889

In 1831 he took his B.A. degree as what is called a "pass-man."

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864