Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Undergraduate life of those days was not half as rosy as it has been painted. There is painful evidence that snobbishness was far more prevalent than it is now, and that is saying a good deal. One of the most remarkable customs of the early days of the college was that of arranging men in class according to social position. This must have occasioned many worthy but poor students considerable mortification and chagrin. A writer on the subject says: "The scholars were often enraged beyond bounds for their disappointment in their place; and it was some time before a class...
...Goes back too far. Lets his shoulders go at the full reach. Fails to control his slide on the recover. Should keep a stronger grip with his outside hand...
...Should not go back too far. Must keep a better grip with both inside and outside hands. His rowing is not firm enough. Is apt to jerk at his stroke...
...Furthermore it gave liberty to man, requiring him to be bound by no creed and inculcating into him no such debasing ideas as the natural depravity of man and eternal damnation. It sanctioned all high and noble aspirations and qualities and believed in immortality, at least in so far as this consists in the memory in the hearts of men of a good character after death...
...Hurries out on the recover. Shouldn't hunch up his shoulders, especially his right. Goes back too far and settles badly. Fails to keep a good grip...